Delivering Long-Term Design Value in a Short Term World

March 21, 2008

Last night the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts brought Jesse James Garrett from Adaptive Path in to speak about “Delivering Long-Term Design Value in a Short Term World”. One of my co-workers is the co-president of the group, and there were quite a few of us from work showed up to hear him speak. I’m [...]

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how you know you love your job: you’re blogging about it on a friday night..

March 14, 2008

Today was our day off after 9 days of ATG training. Yesterday afternoon, we were all mentally “full” of all we’d been learning. I wasn’t sure how productive I’d be at work today.. and as it turned out, it was one of those great days where you just can’t get enough done! The morning started [...]

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Flagship sites – identifying areas of consistency and possible variation

February 20, 2008

Lately at work I’ve been helping out with some light Scotts work. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is a huge client, with several different microsites and campaigns. The recent redesign of scotts.com (disclaimer: I only performed perfunctory copy changes for the redesign) reminded me of much of the work I did at LexisNexis: scotts.com was the [...]

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A mid-career crisis?

February 3, 2008

After 8 years of various “web-” jobs (from Web Director (Jagged) to Web Designer (Maxim) to Web Master (Youthone) back to Web Designer (Common Sense Solutions) to Web Technician (Franklin University) to Web Developer (LexisNexis) to Senior Web Developer (LexisNexis) and now Senior Developer (Resource Interactive), I’m starting to think about a shift in my [...]

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blog as a delivery platform

January 23, 2008

Yesterday a fellow Resourcian pointed out an article written by Jakob Nielsen entitled “Write Articles, Not Blog Postings“. I’ll readily admit I take anything Nielsen writes with a grain of salt. Coming from such a well-known name in the arena of web usability, I don’t find “alertbox” terribly easy to read. One of the biggest [...]

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links – do you really know where you want to go?

January 16, 2008

I had an interesting discussion with a co-worker yesterday about file-naming. A given project has pages dedicated to their leadership team and we were deciding how best to name these files of biographical information. Initially I felt very strongly that a page describing Julie Maples should be named jmaples.xxx, since it describes the content. That [...]

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“I don’t really like images” – what not to say to a designer

August 14, 2007

Yesterday I had a meeting with some graphic and interaction designers, and we were discussing how best to code something up. There was a suggestion to place text onto the background image itself. I hedged. “Yeah, we can do that..where I’m from I don’t really like images, but it looks like we’ll be using them [...]

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streaming?

July 20, 2007

Just read the Bokardo post “welcome to the stream” which got me thinking — with RIAs, we are increasingly getting away from the single path through a website. We interact with an application without page refreshes, we want to be able to define our own paths or interactions. So how is it that this tendency [...]

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Don’t Click It

July 16, 2007

Exactly the sort of site I love and hate at the same time: http://www.dontclick.it/ Extremely innovative, it forces the user to change how they interact with the interface. There are some simple activities for the user to perform (in addition to navigation), and occasionally the user is asked if they ‘miss the click’. It’s interesting [...]

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Architecting for the User Experience

June 14, 2007

Today I attended a three hour session at Microsoft on “Architecting for the User Experience“. It was geared towards architects and senior developers, so I thought I would check it out. The first half of the session was a generic “What is UX” spiel. The take-home? “UX is a bloodbath and you need to fight [...]

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