Posts filed under “UX design”
Be Careful What You Wish For
How many blog posts out there start with “It’s been a while…”? Well, it has been a while. And with good reason. A dramatic amount of stuff has changed in my life this year, and with so much change, I haven’t known where to start. So I’ll start with the changes themselves… In January I […]
Read on...Smart Hotel
A smart use of Twitter: I’m at the Information Architecture Summit, being held this year in the beautiful Peabody Hotel in Memphis. As usual at such geek gatherings, there’s a healthy backchannel running on twitter under the hash tag #ias09. The hotel is following the stream, and answering our questions, such as: Who serves good […]
Read on...The /message
Back in July I mentioned that I’m writing for Stowe Boyd’s blog, /message. He’d invited me and a few others to post regularly, but after a trial period – in which we guest bloggers were pretty slack, especially compared to Stowe’s firehose posting power – he decided to go back to solo blogging. Over the […]
Read on...Designing the Message
Just before Stowe Boyd asked me to blog on /message last week, he sent me this tweet: hey bro. Nice Tumblr template. I am interested in a reworking of my /Message typepad stuff. Ideas? Costs? Stowe and I met, very briefly, last year at Reboot. I was impressed by his talk and we exchanged a […]
Read on...Top-Down Boxes or Bottom-Up Piles?
A chat with Ryan Singer after the next08 has been bouncing around in my head for a few days. Photo by A30_Tsitika We got onto some basic info architecture assumptions which define almost all sites my company makes, and most sites in the web. The more we explored the idea, the more both of us […]
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