“I’m not designing software for other people, I’m designing it for me” –David Hansson, Ruby on Rail creator and proprietor of 37 signals as quoted in Wired magazine 16.03 [March 2008]
I read this line and immediately thought of Todd Wilkens UX Intensive workshop on Design Research and his insight that “user motivations lead to, drive, [...]
Intelligence is a lofty word, it suggests some level greater than where most of us think we are or at least equal to and greater than a significant population. Intelligence really isn’t anything more than an ability to recall sequences, the more you can recall, the faster you can recall them, the more intelligence you [...]
At the beginning of the year I said that this will be the year mobile internet really launches in the U.S. Reluctantly I admitted that is due to Safari on the iPhone. Regardless the source of it, it’s coming true. Just take a look at the recent news and updates coming for [...]
Years ago I watched Channel 9 pretty much every week but in the last few I haven’t been that interested in their stuff, mostly because it’s just too long, but somehow I ended up back there today and found this gem.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=303900
Somewhere in the middle of this epic is a Windows Mobile expense tracker that uses [...]
I just started reading Designing Interfaces in an effort to motivate myself to think about information outside of the standard computer>browser>web page standard.
I am still in the first quarter of the book but what I can say that I like so far is that the author, Jenifer Tidwell, has taken the best practices of interface [...]
Right now I’m working on a site that has a custom style [display] for the iPod Touch, which is really just a iPhone without the phone and $2000+ AT&T contract. I’m also using a HTC TnTY II (Windows Mobile 6) smartphone (unlocked on T-Mobile) and I’ve come to realize that until Windows buys a [...]
I recently started watching the TED Talks series of videos on my iPod Touch, that I am developing a site for at iMed Studios, and was pleased to find a talk given by Jeff Hawkins in 2003 regarding intelligence. This reminded me that I kept meaning to pick up his book On Intelligence but [...]
I knew that I needed to do some reading to formalize my vocabulary if I was to be taken seriously by developers and designers when discussing the way I think things should work so I went to Borders and found Information Architecture by Louis Rosenfeld et. al.
It is a great foundation to all [...]
One of the first things that I did after formalizing my plans at iMed Studios to take increased responsibilities with the IA was to find some formal training. That search led me to Adaptive Path and their UX Intensive event February 19th - 22nd.
I will be attending the event at Hotel Kabuki all 4 [...]
As part of my job at iMed Studios this year I am taking on some information architecture responsibilities. I’ve always been interested in IA and it has always been part of my job that I’ve enjoyed. Now it will be a formal part of my job description so I am setting up this [...]
