All Blog Posts (Page 63)

Oct 05, 2006
Marketing

Reach out and touch someone

I’ve tossed this post into the marketing category, but it’s really anything but. Marketing, to me, implies a deeply impersonal one-to-many relationship. Blogs, coupled with websites like Technorati, give you the ability to manage one-to-one relati...

Oct 04, 2006
Accessibility

Blind Programming

Want to know how blind developers really work? Ask them. Sign up for the Blind Programming mailing list. Although I certainly do not speak for that community, the people I’ve spoken to have always appreciated knowing that the people creating devel...

Oct 04, 2006
Usability

Selling to small business: ease of use is key

I suppose this won’t come as a shock to many people, but it’s always nice to hear messages like this reiterated by people outside of the Ux community. Dharmesh Shah, author of OnStartups, posted an article today about seven key insights in selling...

Oct 03, 2006
Web Design

Following that Web 2.0 Style

I just found a reasonably interesting article on designing for that “Web 2.0 look and feel”. The author sums up the basics of ca. 2006 web design as: * Simple layout * Centered orientation * 3D effects, used sparingly * S...

Oct 03, 2006
Meta

Seattle Mind Camp

I’ll be at Seattle Mind Camp this year. Will you? What happens when you put 250 of Seattle's smartest geeks in a creative environment for 24 hours? We're not sure either, but we'd like to find out. It's time to meet and connect with those involved...

Oct 02, 2006
Ui Design

Helvetica: not just for documents any more

A while back my dev lead, Paul, pointed out to me that all of the new signage going up inside of Microsoft was printed in Segoe, the new Windows Vista font. I might not have ever noticed this had he not pointed it out. Naturally, when I heard abou...

Oct 01, 2006

Inflection Points

In retrospect, you can always say to yourself: “yep, that’s the exact point in time where everything changed.” Hindsight is 20/20, especially when you’re examining massive changes in your life. What’s really tricky is spotting them before they’ve ...

Oct 01, 2006
Marketing

More Cozi Goodness

OK, I gotta admit it: I really do like Cozi Central. If it wasn’t for the fact that I am a single male, aged 24, I would be using this thing non-stop. Unfortunately(?), I have no wife and no kids. Whew. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing after all....