The subtitle of this post could be “how to get people to read your statement of philosophy” or “how to introduce yourself to a new user”. Frequently, clients want to include a page on their website that both welcomes the new user into their world and also expresses their mission and philosophy in detail. They [...]
The Limits of User Advocacy or Why Everyone Should Be Investing in Usability Testing
2011.08.10
The field of “user experience” is in a phase right now where everybody seems to acknowledge that it’s important, but no one wants to actually invest the time and money to make users the centerpiece of their web strategy. Even when there is a testing phase baked into projects, it’s usually one week (or less) [...]
Toward a Moral Catharsis
2011.05.19
While listening to NPR’s Morning Edition this morning, my husband (hereafter referred to as “JT”) and I heard a piece about same-sex marriage legistlation in NY state. NPR played a clip from a speech Republican Assemblywoman Teresa Sayward gave in 2007: “I knew when my son was very young that he was different… I knew that [...]
The new Sun Boxes website is live!
2011.05.02
This project is near and dear to my heart. Sun Boxes is something I want as many people as possible to experience and it’s really satisfying to get to be part of making that happen. The most exciting part of the site is the part I didn’t build! The incomparable Sean Carstensen put together a Flash-based [...]
Keg O’ Tunes
2011.03.21
My adolescence is punctuated by important mixtapes. One in particular overshadows all the rest, having defined the scope of my music taste for the better part of a decade. It is the mighty “Keg O’ Tunes”. I have no idea who made this mix. It appeared at some point in my sister’s car during the [...]