As a UX designer with a couple decades of experience across enterprise and consumer spaces, I’ve worked on everything from large-scale healthcare platforms to deeply niche AI-enhanced prototypes. And over the years, I’ve come to realize that most portfolios only tell part of the story.

They show the final pixels—but rarely the thought process. The tradeoffs. The messy, insightful middle.

So I decided to create something new: a personal Notebook. Not just a portfolio or résumé, but a living, evolving knowledge artifact that captures my professional approach, projects, values, and voice in a format that’s searchable, shareable, and structured for conversation.

You can explore it here:
🎧 UX Design Notebook + Audio Overview

✍️ Why a Notebook?

Traditional portfolios are static. LinkedIn profiles are transactional. But a notebook—especially one powered by AI like Google’s NotebookLM—offers the ability to:

• Document my design philosophy, methods, and frameworks

• Reflect on past projects in context, not isolation

• Share my thinking in a natural, conversational way

• Support mentorship, collaboration, and self-inquiry with AI-powered Q&A

I wanted something that captures not only what I’ve done but how and why I do it the way I do.

🔍 What’s Inside

The notebook includes a wide range of entries that represent the layers of my UX practice:

• 🧠 Design Thinking Artifacts – Process docs, frameworks, and user research templates

• 🛠 Project Overviews – A look inside major work across healthcare, travel, e-commerce, and emerging tech

• 🎙 Audio Introduction – A spoken reflection to personalize the experience and make it feel human

• 💬 My Approach – Notes on cross-functional collaboration, ethical design, and integrating AI into UX workflows

• 🗂 Reusable Methods – Scripts, planning docs, stakeholder alignment tools, and workshop guides

All of it organized with the help of AI, making it searchable and interactive for anyone curious to dig deeper.

🧭 What’s Next

This isn’t a one-and-done project. It’s a living document that I’ll keep evolving—adding case studies, reflection entries, maybe even conversational Q&As powered by NotebookLM’s AI features. I see it as a personal UX lab: a space to think, explore, document, and share what I learn along the way.

If you're building your own version of something like this, or want to talk shop about UX strategy, AI in research, or creative documentation—I'd love to connect.

Let’s make the invisible parts of design visible.

— Tim