Category Archives: User Experience

Mad Men & the Creative Process

I have to admit that I am starting to watch more TV now that the fall season has started. One of my favourite shows right now is Mad Men. If you haven’t see it, it’s a show that takes place in the early ’60s and follows characters who work in an ad agency in New York.
One [...]

Web 2.0 Expo New York: Recap

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I just spent a week in New York attending O’Reilly and TechWeb’s Web 2.0 Expo. I’m sure this has been covered to death in other places, so I’ll spare you the blow-by-blow delayed liveblog of the entire event.
While the keynotes were considered relatively weak from the perspective of most of the [...]

Planning for content

The heart of a website is the content within it. Content drives traffic to website, and connects a visitor through words & images to a company, product, or idea. 
Lately I’ve been working on projects that require significant thought and planning for content. I thought I would share some tips for planning for content (some I [...]

Summer in NYC

Or more appropriately, the end of summer in New York City.
I’m going to be flying down to the Big Apple for the Web 2.0 Expo from September 16th - 19th at the Javits Center on the west side of Manhattan. The Web 2.0 Expo is one of the premier web development and user experience-oriented events [...]

An Agile World

In a recent 2 part article, Jeff Patton discusses how to bring a user experience design process into an agile world. It’s got some great actionable suggestions and I recommend it as a good summary of UX and Agile.
This article also relates to a project that I am currently working on. We are trying to [...]