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So, for the first time ever (thanks to the prodding of my Viget colleagues) I got off my ass and submitted a presentation for SXSW 2009. Well, voting has begun, and if you think the idea is a good one, I’d appreciate your vote

Social Design Patterns for Extroverts

One of the critical […]

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My first blog post on the Viget Advance strategy blog is live!

Initial Impressions of Silverback

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This Monday marks my last week as a designer at Lulu.com. I’ve been there about 3.5 years — including the time I spent doing work-study as part of my master’s degree — and I’ve had a fantastic time. I’ve had the chance to work on virtually every corner of the site at one time or […]

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This is the poster Alla Zollers and I presented at the 2008 IA Summit.

Abstract

Tag clouds are becoming increasingly popular with websites that utilize social tagging to categorize ever expanding collections of digital information. Tagging has been found to be more adaptable than traditional classification, as well as more prone to serendipitous information discovery. The […]

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I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but I finally got around to making a stencil of little people to use at work.

Download OmniGraffle People Stencil

To Install: Copy the stencil file into /Users/username/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Stencils/

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Slides from my presentation on Research Driven Design at the DC Design Talks at the Viget Labs HQ in Falls Church, VA.

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So, while I might be pretty awful at posting here, here, or here, I’ve started posting over on the official Lulu blog. My first two posts focus on some of the widgets I helped build while with the community team at Lulu:

Customizing the Lulu Mini-Storefront with CSS Meet the Lulu Mini-Storefront Widgets

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Slides from my presentation on remote usability tools (UserVue and Ethnio) at the last TriUPA event of 2007.

Note: Since I gave this presentation, Ethnio has re-launched focusing on live recruiting. While Ethnio doesn’t really facilitate remote usability tests anymore, it’s a very nice complement to tools like UserVue.

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I gave a talk last week at the inaugural meeting of Refresh the Triangle called “Building User-Centered Web Apps in a Crunch.” The main part of talk was based on Jakob Nielsen’s “Guerilla HCI” ideas, with a sprinkling of ideas from the Agile UCD movement. It was, more or less, my first public speaking gig, […]

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Khoi Vinh:

There’s also another, more formal idea at work on A Brief Message: the notion that online publications don’t necessarily need to be decorated databases. They can be art directed, too.

This past week Liz Danzico and Khoi Vinh launched a much lauded new site called A Brief Message. The goal of the site, […]

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