Posted in IA/UX on Apr 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
My wife and I are in the process of re-designing our yard, since we need to take care of some urgent drainage and landscaping issues. Last night, we spent the entire evening poring over garden design books, most notably Ann Lovejoy’s Organic Garden Design School and Jacke & Toensmeier’s Edible Forest Gardens.
I was struck by [...]
Posted in IA/UX on Apr 16th, 2008 No Comments »
At the 2008 IA Summit in Miami this last weekend, I and 40 other user experience practitioners showcased their work on the first annual Wall Of Deliverables. Conference attendees then voted on the entries. The deliverable I submitted, ZAAZ’s Blended Agenda Matrix, won 2nd place!
I’ve posted a blog entry about the Blended Agenda Matrix and [...]
Posted in IA/UX on Apr 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Every time I venture into the wide world beyond my daily haunts, I encounter people that, to put it bluntly, annoy the hell out of me. You know them: the “other” people, the ones who litter, talk on their cellphones while driving, drive atmosphere-polluting behemoths, snore loudly in airplanes on red-eye flights, actually enjoy watching [...]
Posted in IA/UX on Apr 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been realizing more and more that the crucial role user experience architects play in the software and web design process is that of a strategist. So I started reading up on strategy.
What I found is that, contrary to the paper-thin plots in movies, strategic planning does not happen in a subterranean room filled with [...]