Designing for, reflecting on,
human experience.
The WIP* digital garden of Jen Goertzen.
Featured – Summer 2024
New chapters, literal and figurative.
It’s not the new year or time for “spring cleaning,” but change is happening. It’s time for something—or “some things,” pural—new, including joining a new-to-me team and writing a new-to-everyone book.
I’m in the draft-writing phase of these and other new chapters, but I want to share the journey. Stick around for updates on product design, book-writing, website-designing, and moving across the ocean (again).
Let’s work together
I’m looking for new opportunities in product design, open to in-house or consulting roles.
I’m writing a book
I’m expanding my onboarding resource, the up-to-speed script, into a book. Onboarding can be a challenging time but we can make it better.
Notes
Reflections on design, design in life, and life in design. Ranging from first scribbles to thoroughly edited drafts.
Digital gardens, portfolios, and being online.Coming Soon
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,
Getting up to speed, the book.
- Outline,
- Design,
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
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
* 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.