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Christian Watson’s Elements of Design Showcase
Christian Watson has put together a Design Showcase with over 70 different elements. It’s a great reference when brainstorming and wireframing.
Continue reading...NextAutos.com launches
16. June 2008
After many months and countless hours of hard work we’ve finally launched NextAutos into the wild. An evolution of Winding Road Magazine, NextAutos is a new site for automotive enthusiasts. More to follow but thanks to everyone from nFusion and Rain City Studios for bringing it together.
Continue reading...Q and A with Luke Wroblewski
6. July 2007
Design Sessions has a good interview with Luke Wroblewski. In particular, I thought the following passages were very interesting: “Q: How do you know when a design is successful? How does your definition of success relate to usability, technology, and art? Luke: A site is successful when it achieves the goals you set for it. I know [...]
Continue reading...Problem Solving and Problem Setting
24. June 2007
I’m currently reading Sketching User Experience by Bill Buxton and he does a great job illustrating the critical difference between problem setting and problem solving in the product design process. He points out, “problem setting can be characterized by the question, ‘What is the right thing to build?’ and problem solving answers the question [...]
Continue reading...Great article on sharing UX with the team
29. May 2007
Great UX team article on UXmatters.com by Pabini Gabriel-Petit. The article does a great job outlining real world problems such as ‘throwing docs over the fence‘, the discrete discipline roles and how they should work together. While organizational roles differ by organization, I’ve found that the more disciplines represented in the process, the more innovative [...]
Continue reading...The rise of the Web Strategist
26. May 2007
Jeremiah Owyang has a good podcast discussion with Steve Gehlen Steve Gehlen on the state of the Web Strategy Industry about the growth of the web strategist role. While I don’t think anyone who is a “decision maker and stakeholder of a website” is a web strategist, it is interesting to consider the lineage of [...]
Continue reading...Great Article on Color (or Colour)
31. October 2006
Mark Boulton does a great job of explaining color theory basics. Five Simple Steps to designing with colour part 2: A few basics : Journal : Mark Boulton
Continue reading...Interaction Design Books
23. October 2006
Great list of interaction design books from Luke Wroblewski. I have most of them on my shelf and need to set aside some time to finish reading a few of them
Continue reading...Post-UX 2006 Thoughts
18. August 2006
As UX 2006 finished up (for me) yesterday, it certainly exceeded my expectations. It’s important to consider since there are organizational expectations that I will ‘learn something’ and subsequently ‘apply’ this to organizational initiatives as well as ‘teach’ these learnings to others. To evaluate it, I consider the conference on a number of [...]
Continue reading...Web 2.0 Next Generation Presentation Notes
17. August 2006
Great presentation this morning by Jeffrey Veen on designing the next generation web apps. He used the Garrett framework as a reference to examine how the next gen apps. With all the buzz around 2.0 it has been a challenge to put it in an applicable context. Some of the key takeaways: As Jeff [...]
Continue reading...- Another Brilliant Berkun Post
- Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin
- Product Camp Austin Venue
- NextAutos.com launches
- Andrew Chen's Renewable Online Audiences
- The invisible hand grabs an iPhone
- Site Update
- Software Curator
- Christian Watson's Elements of Design Showcase
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- NextAutos.com launches (0)
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin (0)
- Another Brilliant Berkun Post (0)
- Product Camp Austin Venue (0)
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- Great Post on Link Building Fundamentals (0)
- Dan Roam's book 'The Back of the Napkin' (0)
- Dave McClure's Great SXSW presentation on Start-Up Metrics (0)
- Software Curator
- Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin
- Another Brilliant Berkun Post
- Product Camp Austin Venue
- ProductCamp Austin
- New Site: Ask Good Product Manager
- Arbitrary posts
- Great post by Jeff Lash on Goals over Features
- Generalized Scrum meetings for everyone
Now Reading
Planned books:
- Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod
Current books:
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The Death of Economics by Paul Ormerod
Recent books:
- Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior by Paul Ormerod
- Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series) by Mike Cohn
- Effective Prototyping for Software Makers (Interactive Technologies) by Jonathan Arnowitz
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam
- Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds
20. September 2008
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