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Healers

January 13, 2010

Meeting musicians, rock stars, movie stars, actors, artsists, and all the glitz that follows is cool. Though, I learned through the years that often I am far more engaged by the craft and work produced than the person, or persona, I meet.
Now, Doctors … they wow me. I become star-struck in the very presence. Truly. [...]

Business Analysis vs. Design Thinking

November 23, 2009

I have a great deal of thinking to share on the topic. To start, I enjoyed Harold Hambrose’s article’s:
http://www.wrenchinthesystem.info/2009/08/business-analyst-vs-designer/
http://www.cio.com/article/499620/Q_A_Why_Are_Enterprise_Applications_Underused_Poor_Software_Design
More to come.

World Usability Day 2009

November 12, 2009

Today I spanned two cities, Philadelphia and New York, for inspiration … to fill my tank … to see and hear from my peers on what’s going in the world of “sustainable design.” While we’re all saturated with marketing campaigns and the whole advertising world going green … is there any true impact being made?
Perhaps [...]

Learning Well, Simple and Fast

September 23, 2009

Attended the UPA NJ meet last night. Alice Preston talked about her UX work for non-profit. She was charged with creating a digital library of materials from and about Africa, in a number of subject areas, from botany through cultural heritage to political history. We heard many of her challenges and I know many weren’t [...]

No time for User Research?

September 15, 2009

Unless All of the ingredients are clearly present- the risk of not researching, modeling, and defining user requirements is one not worth leaving to chance.
I attended the NYC UPA event tonight, hosted at Razorfish: “The Razorfish Transformation of Billboard.com”  – Bryan Hamilton, UX Lead, gave a polished presentation on his impressive work.
He mentioned “due to [...]

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