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 [...]
Great post by Jeffrey Zeldman on the “void on the org chart”.
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 [...]
Interesting post by Jeremiah that hit home regarding the multitude of web development processes that have been thrown around for years. Having worked at a number of companies over the last 12+ years, they all have generally had the same process just organized and named differently (sometimes to the point of confusing their own [...]
It’s that time of the year again and I’m doing the SXSW dance. The biggest challenge so far is picking the sessions that will be the most interesting and beneficial. At the end of the first day, here is my session tally.
Session 1: Emerging Social and Technology Trends
I must admit I had high hopes but [...]
In a recent post by Jeremiah Owyang, he outlines three competency areas that an individual, regardless of role, must thoroughly understand to be an effective ‘web strategist’: User Experience, Business, and Technology. While many folks come to the game from a number of disciplines, it really takes a fundamental understanding and appreciation of all the [...]
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
While I didn’t hear the presentation, I downloaded Luke Wroblewski’s presentation from Shift 2006 and it has some very forward-thinking points. I’ve read over the last year that ‘creative thinking’ is more in demand and the decisional sciences being more of a commodity. I do think this is a long-term change just and while I [...]
While still considered to be a ‘black art’ shrouded in mystery, here is an easy to read primer on SEO for beginners.
Jeremiah mentions in his blog, the recent beta release of Amazon’s EC2 (Electronic Compute Cloud) which I believe is one of a series of continuing significant releases. Amazon has started to leverage their infrastructure by offering it as a service with the S3 (Simple Storage Solution) and now with most recently with EC2.
This is significant [...]
