A lot of people think designers just make things pretty. We don’t. First and foremost we solve problems. Problems that usually start with a question and, sometimes, we need to ask ourselves if we’re asking the right question.
Vendor Client Relationships
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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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Digging Digg
Lately I’ve been coming across a lot of really cool stuff on the web via a variety of sources. The most recent of which has been Digg. I had heard about Digg for years but a system to rank popular news stories just didn’t interest me that much. I finally took a look at the site and I was an immediate convert. The design category is fantastic.
You know CSS is mainstream when…
I’m a little behind on my reading (and posting) but work has been busy and taking time off for SXSW didn’t help things. I found myself reading the February issue of How while I ate my lunch today. February was the issue on typography. I was surprised to find an article on web typography but even more surprised by what it wrote:
James is inside my head
I don’t know how he did it but somehow he managed to steal this list straight out of my brain. Sure he added a few things like move to New York and picking up music again, but it’s basically my list.
Fanboy Numero Uno
I’m normally a “play-it-cool” kinda guy. I don’t like to fawn over people or even go out of my way to meet them. They’re just people. And if they’re well-known people they probably already have enough of that going on and wouldn’t mind a little bit of personal space.
But a combination of [...]
SXSW Panel: Dogma Free Design
Notes from the panel discussion that is going on right now. I might even liveblog for the first time ever. Yeah, probably not. Click for the shortlist of DOGMA.
SXSW Update
A collection of links, applications (Textmate), presentations (Microformats), and photos (Flickr stream) from the last few days at SXSW 2006. This is a very tiny list — there just are not enough hours in the day for more, but everything on the list is worth checking out.
SXSW Panel: Beyond Folksonomies – Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma
This panel defined folksonomy and the current state of tagging. During the course of the conversation there were a few suggestions on ways to improve upon the current state of affairs, which is what the panel was really about. I wanted to expand on that part of the conversation.