Most of the places I’ve worked I’ve been the only official user experience practitioner. Depending on the moment, this could be either great or incredibly frustrating. While I found the autonomy to be empowering there were times I really felt I needed to collaborate with other practitioners in person.
Recently, I had the pleasure [...]
While I didn’t go see the zombies, I did go take photos at The Factory and McGavock Confederate Cemetery. After walking around the cemetery, it just didn’t seem right to go hang out with zombies.
Here are a few of my favorites:
A few links that might be of interest re: these subjects:
The Factory at [...]
Go take photos of the living dead walking around downtown Nashville.
Explore information design patterns.
Improve my code readability with CSS styleguides.
Read an ethnographic study on how young children interact with the web.
Learn more about being a UX Team of one.
After growing tired of listening to talk radio during my commute, I get enough music when I’m at work, I thought I’d enter the 21st century and try some podcasts. If you’re not familiar with podcasts you should watch Common Craft’s excellent video on this subject.
Here are the few I’ve listened to so far:
UXpod [...]
One of my co-workers, after seeing my latest computer desktop asked me if it were interactive:
I thought about messing with him but admitted I had just taken some of my Flickr photos and made the desktop in Photoshop. We talked about how cool it would be if: you could select photos from Flickr or any [...]