"In the world of digital experience design, there are a handful of tools that help designers in sticky situations. Whenever you need a solid reasoning as stakeholders challenge your work. Or you need to speak confidently to senior leaders without sounding like you're making stuff up. Or when you get promoted and need to help guide others through their own thinking. You need a toolkit. Specifically, you need time-tested frameworks you can carry in your back pocket to help make the world make sense."
"While intuition and feeling play a part, you need to back that intuition up with concrete reasoning. Why? Because, I believe what we call intuition is often just pattern recognition we can't explain. We see things that work, but we don't comprehend why they work. And when someone challenges our choices, we're left stammering about "users liking it" or "best practices" while everyone else rolls their eyes."
"These are the things they carry in their pockets or on their belt almost every day. They are useful items or tools that make life easier. Some ( like me) carry tactical pens, some carry a thin rigid wallet, others carry a pocket knife or Leatherman, still others carry a host of other stuff."
Every Day Carry (EDC) refers to everyday tools kept to handle unexpected situations. In digital experience design, an analogous EDC of time-tested reasoning frameworks enables designers to respond to critique, present confidently to senior leaders, and mentor others. Intuition often reflects pattern recognition without explicit understanding, so designers must support hunches with concrete rationale. Reliance on vague claims like user preference or best practices invites skepticism. Curating a personal design EDC shifts decision-making from emotion to defensible logic, strengthening communication and facilitating career advancement beyond common mid-career plateaus.
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