Category: My Journey
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Inactive sites
These are some of the websites I’ve designed that are no longer active. (I’m working on getting some better screenshots.)
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I’m going legit
Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Sorry about that. I’ve made a few decisions though. 1) I’m going to care less about what “people” think. I’ll have better luck connecting with people if I just talk to them straight up, and worry less about carefully scripted copy. So I hope you enjoy the…
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User Experience Meetup
I went to my first local web design and development meetup last night. The topic was user experience (a personal favorite of mine) and though the speaker freely admitted she wasn’t going to introduce anything ground-shatteringly new, a couple points she made really stuck with me. First, that we are not our users, no matter…
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Stop waiting for that mandate from heaven
I tend to get myself involved in a lot of projects at work, most of them done by a small group or committee. One thing that drives me bonkers is when people spend more time talking about their plan for the project than implementing it. Don’t misunderstand me, I think planning is a critical part…
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An idealistic view of presentations
I’ve always had a romantic view of education. Not the force-you-to-sit-down-and-follow-the-rules formal education system, but the idea of education at all levels of society. The informal education that happens through a conversation with a friend or coworker, or the knowledge gained from a presentation at a conference or meeting. That’s why I take presentations very…
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