jared spool Originally uploaded by seagreenme If you were there, you understand. If you weren’t there, feel free to add your own captions to this photo of jared spool and me. Jared is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), and gives a damn good presentation. lessig, eat your heart out.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
journey to the center of design
jared spool is my cruise director. It’s time to retire the dogma of user-centered design. Instead, we should focus on informed design and build a reward system based on informed measurements: vision, feedback, and culture (three core UX attributes). Presenter Jared freakin’ Spool, UIE Date Sunday, March 15 Sites UIE brain sparks putting a ring …
version control: no more save as…
Version control can save your life and make you happy. Presenters Matt Mullenweg – Automattic/WordPress Karen Nguyen – Yahoo! Zach Nies – Rally Software Development Joe Pezzillo – joepezzillo.com, @metafy Derek Scruggs – SurveyGizmo Date Sunday, March 15 Sites phpadvent article trac cornerstone versions Beanstalk mecurial
microformats: a quiet revolution
If you use large sites like Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft, you’re using microformats. If you use twitter or WordPress, you’re using microformats. So there is a lot of life to the use of microformats. Even past the death of a site that uses microformats: the use of microformats helps that information be archived elsewhere. Presenters …
try making yourself more interesting
Does this matter? If this product/site went away, would you care? Would your users care? Keep yourself interesting by experimenting without boundaries while planning your commitment. Presenters Brian Oberkirch, small good thing DL Byron, textura design Amit Gupta, photojojo Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic Lane Becker, Get Satisfaction / Adaptive Path Date Friday, March 13 Site …
ooooh! that’s clever!
Sharing secrets: hiding things in plain sight generates a special connection between the site and its audience generates delight and generates a desire to share the secret. Presenter Paul Annett, clearleft @nicepaul Date Friday, March 13 Sites podcast clearleft
everything you know about web design is wrong
When you should get design involved? At the beginning along with everything else. You can’t compartmentalize anymore (marketing, business, design, tech; design: interaction, information, visual, info architecture). You can teach in compartments, but you can’t work in compartments. Education has to start out compartmentalized but with a goal to aggregate (inter-disciplinary capstone projects planned from …
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i feel mature.
this is my third sxsw. i’m a veteran. i’ve tried thinking about what i am here to do. yes, it’s always been a place where i refresh my professional side. i learn all the things that i should be focusing on for the next year. that’s still going to happen. but this year seems different. …