February 2009
73 posts
Excited for Lindstrom and Lights Down Low tonight. Hoping to hit up both. There is also some Bmore action going on too.
Seriously conflicted as to whether Twitter should update my facebook status. The humanity.
Scale of Journalistic Accounting Obfuscation →
In working on The Media is Thriving this week, it’s really driven home a trend that I think many of us think about, but few of us ever really work through: the tendency of the business media to…
January 2009
56 posts
User Experience Deliverables →
Peter Morville and Jeffrey Callender have been compiling a list of UX deliverables and have summarized 20 of them succintly on the Semantic Studios site.
This list describes twenty user…
Evidence That Media is Thriving →
Rick Webb and Noah Brier have launched The Media is Thriving on Twitter. Counteracting the incessant negative chatter speculating a media apocalypse, the duo has created the Twitter…
The Psychology of Sharing →
At some point the anonymity of the internet transformed into a social networking clearinghouse of daily minutiae and most of us willingly opted in, choosing the ease and comfort of virtual…
User Experience Deliverables →
Peter Morville and Jeffrey Callender have been compiling a list of UX deliverables and have summarized 20 of them succintly on the Semantic Studios site.
This list describes twenty user…
I exceeded my “fast food” budget on Mint.com this month. Gross! Cheesesteaks, Burgers, Buritos, Subway, Gyros, Starbucks. Time to shape up.
anyone have any good links to info on how various sites calculate daily active users?
Go listen to Dan Saffer talk about NUI, I mean touch, I mean gestural interfaces.. OR stay home eat digiorno’s and play skate 2 with buds?
User Experience Deliverables →
User Experience Deliverables (January 27, 2009) http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000228.php … It’s an exhilarating time for the user
Can I just say how much I hate hover based UI. Shelfari just made me think WAY too much about where my mouse was.
Whats the “best” book sharing site out there? Delicious library style but web based w/ discussion. Thanks in advance
just watched W. and religulous back to back. Both awesome. Quite a double header.
new beatport.com has RSS for labels, thank gawd.
Aquired Sake 2 last night but was not able to play. Boo!
With Wired Products, Will Marketing Leave Agencies... →
Marketing guru Russell Davies recently wrote up his notes on his latest presentation on his blog. Russell has been looking at how RFID and similar technology can allow brands to tell…
Great Entrepreneurs Build "Tribes" →
I have just finished reading Seth Godin’s latest book, “Tribes.” The book tells many a tale of how out-of-the box thinkers, undaunted by conventional wisdom or fear of failing (or falling, for…
a boxee box? →
when we give demos of boxee we frequently get asked the question “looks great, but how do i get it running on my TV?”. today our answer is “you need to connect a mac/windows/linux computer…
Sorry Google, You Missed the Real-Time Web! →
The era of dominance is shrinking. IBM dominated tech longer than Microsoft did, and Google’s period of dominance will be even shorter. As with IBM and Microsoft, a great and wealthy company…
Stack Overflow Hits 3m Unique Visitors in 4... →
Stack Overflow, the software developers’ Q&A site created by rock star programmers Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, saw 3 million unique visitors last month - just the 4th month the site has been…
Farewell barbarianNYC buds, and sorry to have missed all my other NYC friends on this trip.
Game Mechanics for Interaction Design: An... →
Amy Jo Kim is a game/social/web designer known for bridging the divide between game and web design. She has designed software UIs, games, online communities, and wrote the seminal book Community…
Reading hudson plane crash stories. WIll be re-commiting saftey information to memory on my flight out of JFK tomorrow.
The Field puts finishing touches on new album →
Axel Willner is in the studio with John Stanier finishing up his new album, due out in May.
finally got the new version moveable type and wordpress installed on my mac thanks to @tobyjoe suggesting MAMP. Both r cool, but WP wins.
Todd Warfel's Persona Templates →
Todd Warfel has posted templates for his data-driven personas. The main file is an InDesign (INDD) file and the visual chart is in Illustrator file. Both are made with CS4.
Todd Warfel's Persona Templates →
Todd Warfel has posted templates for his data-driven personas. The main file is an InDesign (INDD) file and the visual chart is in Illustrator file. Both are made with CS4.
Userfly: Get Usability Insights with One Line of... →
When it comes to Web design and development, one thing trumps the latest technology and cool features: usability. Why? Because all of the features and functions in the world are completely…
Why You Have To Jailbreak the iPhone →
If you own an iPhone and you’re fairly technical, then you’ve no doubt gone through the steps necessary to “jailbreak” your iPhone - the process that opens up the phone to allow for the…
Jetlagged: Comparing wiki pages for UI, UX, Experience Design, HCI, IxD, Usability, IA and Human Factors…. fascinating but hope it ZZZs me
The bathroom floor tiles in my room at the thompson hotel in SoHo are heated. This absolutely rules when coming out of the cold. Berbs.
patternBrowser →
patternBrowser is an amazing design pattern library produced by the Interface Design Team of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. I’ve spent a little time looking through the interaction…
Oh virgin America my old friend, how have you been?
Very happy to be listening to Glass Candy’s “Deep Gems: A Collection of Singles, B Sides & Rarities” .. So good. http://snurl.com/9s7bc
Anyone know an ID3 tag editor for OSX that I could to use to move data from the “publisher” field to another field?
Man, Permanent Vacation (label) puts out awesome music. Annnnnd Bedtime.
Listening to AWESOME compilation by JD Twitch (1/2 optimo) of obscure punk. Packaging looks great. Might buy. http://snurl.com/9nh48
Barack and Shepard →
Shepard takes it to another level… click through for the details.
Son of A, v-moda headphones doing that one ear goes dead thing. Anyone take advantage of their warranty?
Incase at Macworld →
Incase descends on Macworld with a street assault… delivering a healthy serving of creative sniping throughout SF Soma area… all tied to the PowerSlider campaign. Below is a tiny sampling… follow…
Bruce Sterling’s State of the World →
Old school internet gathering place The Well has posted the transcript of a discussion headed up by Bruce Sterling on the “state of the world” 2009. The author and design critic covers a…
Left 4 Dead patch released, safe rooms are safe →
Filed under: News, Left 4 Dead
You’ll be pleased to know that on top of the server-side patch, Valve has just released a title update for Left 4 Dead that’s a client-side…
EA confirms Thursday's Skate 2 demo release →
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace
Last week we ninja-spotted a reference on Xbox.com to its future release, now we know that the Skate 2 demo is really real and really…
Alternative to watching the video I linked to of BART police shooting - CNN article http://snurl.com/9k0nz
Latest cellphone footage of BART police executing boy on NYE. Welcome to ubiquitous tech, time to burn for it PoPo. http://snurl.com/9jyv6
WiFi printer and APC backup battery both successfully installed. Geek choirs for the night,.. completed.
Top 4 games in Gamefly que unavailable. Boo. Reconsidering subscribtion.
Skaters are Loving the Recession →
The current economic downturn is promoting a symbiotic relationship between the traditionally shunned skateboarding subculture, and the remains of middle class suburbia. Foreclosed homes…
Typepad’s categories (tagging) UI is very frustrating. I wish I could just enter categories in a text field w/ autocomplete and suggestions.