Designing for, reflecting on,
human experience.
The WIP* digital garden of Jen Goertzen.
Winter 2025/26
Long shadows and hibernation projects.
These last months I’ve started a new job, restarted uni classes, and fallen back into a new wave of creating in different mediums. Now snow and cold has arrived, the motion if not the momentum continues because it’s time for hibernation projects. For updates and ramblings, pop by the Now page and Garden.
Notes
Reflections on design, design in life, and life in design. Ranging from first scribbles to thoroughly edited drafts.
Projects, lists, outlines
Logs and snapshots of parts of my work and world, standalone but hopefully never static.
My experience in product design.
- Outline,
- Design
Presentations.
- List,
- Design
“Up to speed” book
Project
Walnut (beta)
Project
Library
Some books I've read, recommended, and abandoned.
Words Are My Matter
Ursula K. Le Guin
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Wild Places
Robert MacFarlane
Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
English Pastoral: An Inheritance
James Rebanks
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Bird By Bird
Anne Lamott
A Drop of Corruption
Robert Jackson Bennett
* Welcome to my work in progress.
You may have noticed there is more promise of content than actual content. I'm trying a new approach to this website where I'm sharing pieces sooner, even when incomplete—website included. I hope you'll come back to see how it's grown.