Author Archives: Scott

Visual Thinking and Note-taking

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 – 2:33 PM

Yesterday, I attended an online webinar put on by VizThinkU entitled Visual Note-taking 101. The speakers/sketchers were a wonderfully talented bunch including Austin Kleon, Sunni Brown and Mike Rohde and moderated by Dave Gray (XPLANE). The format was informal and took us through a variety of techniques around visual thinking over a joyous 3-hours. Check [...]

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Calgary UX (redux)

Saturday, February 7, 2009 – 1:06 PM

 
In May 2008 I packed up my family and made the move to Calgary to join our local office. Before I left I started exploring what local UX community there was in Calgary. What I did find was a Calgary UX Google Group started a few years ago by Scott Weisbrod at Critical Mass. I [...]

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IDEA Conference

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 – 10:17 PM

I just returned from the 2008 IDEA conference, a yearly conference about “Information: Design, Experience and Access” sponsored by the Information Architecture Institute and thought I’d write a bit about some of the speakers I took in at the conference:
On Day 1, I took in the pre-conference workshop with Paul Gould and David Bishop from [...]

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The multi-store cart

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 – 7:48 PM

Gap now allows customers to shop all of its stores online as though it were one site. Visitors can switch stores via a tabbed interface, add products to a single cart and check-out in one go.

While Gap previously allowed visitors to create one account that worked for all of its sites and allowed you to [...]

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Progressive enhancement: building a better user (and search) experience

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 – 5:15 PM

As web development moves towards richer user experiences leveraging JavaScript, Ajax, Flash, CSS, Flex, etc. site visitors (such as people using older browsers or even search engine robots) can end up with a site that is inaccessible. Worth considering in your design and implementation planning is what your pages will look like when these rich elements are [...]

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