A photo of the Alamo Drafthouse that I took for SpiceWorld 2008 is being used, with permission, by Spectrum Culture. It’s not a great photo, but still cool to see it being used: http://spectrumculture.com/2009/06/the-alamo-drafthouse-at-the-ritz-austin-tx.html.
Archive for 2009
Designers: Design Your Resumes!
I’m reading through resumes and cover letters, looking for freelancers to add to our pool of talent at Spiceworks. And most of the resumes suck. They are horribly designed. (Two pages in all caps, seriously? And you call yourself a designer?) As a whole they have terrible leading, headers, use of white space, suffer from poor font choices, and are riddled with typos, misspellings, grammatical errors, missing punctuation, inconsistent punctuation on lists, and on and on.
UX Team of One Panel (Unedited Notes from Presentation)
These are the unedited notes I took during the SXSW panel. Sub-lists aren’t indented so I’ll need to come back and format later. No guarantee I’ll actually do that so hopefully she’ll publish her presentation.
Put away the computer
Start with a six-up template:
A piece of paper with six thumbnail boxes
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Twas Time
March 16, 2007, Karina and I welcomed our baby boy into the world.
January 1, 2008, I took a job with a startup company, Spiceworks.
You’ll have to excuse me if I not only didn’t post here in the intervening two years, but if I let the site fall into disrepair. But I just had a [...]