Archive for February, 2004

New School?

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

We took Sagan to an open house at the Blooming Grove Academy today. She liked it a lot and so did we. She’s on the waiting list for now and we will register her for the fall (as soon as we can come up with the 200$ to do it).
The school is run […]

For your next design meeting

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

Just play it over and over for your project manager, client, or any other person who continues to support crappy design for no apparent reason.
That’s not usable! (400k AIF QT)
The downside of recording this is that my daughter is running all over the house saying it over, and over, and over, and over…

User-Business Balanced Design

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

User-Centered Design is so 2003.
I have been mulling this for a while and it finally clicked while I was writing at Borders last night. Part of the reason designers and usabilityers don’t get much respect, especially those that tout UCD, is because the people we work for often don’t care about the user (in […]

As the meme turns…

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

The ripple continues to spread outward. Something usually causes a ripple and for the current iteration of the meme I trace it all back to Togs’s call last summer for interaction designers to lift themselves up and create their own world.
From that point on I began reading a lot of articles, posts, […]