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Bradley Horowitz: Lowering Barriers to Particpation
Bradley Horowitz, the VP Product Strategy for Yahoo, gave a great presentation on some of the latest technology implementations going on at Yahoo. While the topic was ‘Lowering Barriers to Participation’, I found the session more general. Good Take-Aways: Yahoo is doing Agile and they have their own variant called YAgile. Very cool and I heard [...]
Continue reading...UX 2006 Day one
14. August 2006
Day 1 of Adaptive Path User Experience week is underway and so far my ‘User Experience’ has been very good. The sessions have varied from very abstract to tangible items to take away. A lot of the folks that I’ve met are looking for tangible pieces to take back and implement.
Continue reading...Functioning Form - Interface Design Skill-set Diagram
22. July 2006
Great post that really resonates with me as a product manager. The only element that I don’t cover is the visual design but I think most folks would appreciate that. In my role it’s critical to understand the business case, technologies for implementations, information architecture, information design and how the users will interact with [...]
Continue reading...What I’m Reading: Universal Principles of Design
25. June 2006
I’ve started reading Universal Principles of Design and am thoroughly impressed. The book provides a great overview of design principles with application. For those of us in the web business who don’t have the traditional design background or missed the class, this is a great reference of concepts to consider when developing user interfaces [...]
Continue reading...Good ALA Article: Planning Manpower on a Web Team
22. June 2006
Interesting article on A List Apart on how to plan for a web team. While it peanut-butters the roles, it certainly is a good discussion starter A List Apart: Articles: How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team
Continue reading...Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization - Boxes and Arrows
19. March 2006
Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization - Boxes and Arrows
Continue reading...Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Boxes and Arrows
16. March 2006
Interesting article about segmenting users into their search mode. Good food for thought as ’search’ is often a box that is just checked Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Boxes and Arrows
Continue reading...- Choose your Methodology, not a Development Dogma
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin
- Another Brilliant Berkun Post
- Software Curator
- Product Camp Austin Venue
- NextAutos.com launches
- The invisible hand grabs an iPhone
- Site Update
- Andrew Chen's Renewable Online Audiences
- Christian Watson's Elements of Design Showcase
- New Site: Ask Good Product Manager (1)
- Christian Watson's Elements of Design Showcase (1)
- About Rob Grady (0)
- NextAutos.com launches (0)
- Congratulations to ProductCamp Austin (0)
- Another Brilliant Berkun Post (0)
- Product Camp Austin Venue (0)
- ProductCamp Austin (0)
- Great Post on Link Building Fundamentals (0)
- Dan Roam's book 'The Back of the Napkin' (0)
- Facscinating paper: Spamalytics: An Emperical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion
- Great Quote from British Economist Paul Ormerod
- Andrew Chen’s Renewable Online Audiences
- Dan Roam’s book ‘The Back of the Napkin’
- Dave McClure’s Great SXSW presentation on Start-Up Metrics
- Web sites as Art Projects and Hype 2.0
- Great post by Jeffrey Zeldman on Web Divisions
- Problem Solving and Problem Setting
- The rise of the Web Strategist
- Reading: The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
Now Reading
Planned books:
None
Current books:
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The Death of Economics by Paul Ormerod
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Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and 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
17. August 2006
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