Hearing about these two current events in the same news broadcasts this week has given me a bit of cultural whiplash. I own and use a few Apple products, most of which I need in order to do my job. They are elegant. They are easy to use. They are functional. Despite all of these [...]
I wish my government was this responsive
2011.09.16
We get these Bed Bath & Beyond coupons in the mail roughly once a week. Perhaps you’ve seen them? Anyway, I’ve never once used one, mostly because I don’t even know where one is around here. So a few weeks ago I was looking at one of these coupons and it dawned on me: They [...]
Messes we knew we were making
2011.08.29
Today, I came across the idea (probably via stackoverflow) of technical debt. To quote Martin Fowler: You have a piece of functionality that you need to add to your system. You see two ways to do it, one is quick to do but is messy – you are sure that it will make further changes [...]
9/11 Memorial Guide
2011.08.18
Over the spring and summer, I had the opportunity to work with Local Projects on the companion website to the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. The memorial doesn’t open until 9/11/11, but you can already start exploring the names on the memorial wall now at the website: http://names.911memorial.org/ For this project, I created the interface and [...]