This Is Someone Else’s Design
A lot of people’s, actually. It’s a theme, a really nice theme, but a theme that I bought from Themeforest.net for forty bucks. It’s a theme that I didn’t even really change around. If you like it, you...
View ArticleSimple Feature Flags for Rails + Mongoid
Selectively rolling out new bits of an app using feature flags isn’t exactly a new idea. But being reminded of it during the keynote preceding the overall awesomeness of Heroku’s developer conference...
View ArticleDon’t Get Interviewed By Your Interviewees
Saw Steve Portigal speak at the LA UX Meetup this week. Lots of insights from the guy who literally wrote the book on user interviewing techniques as a critical part of the product development process....
View ArticleProduct Management Is Just Like Chicken Ranching
I genuinely love a good metaphor more than anyone, and the first day back to work in 2014 brought me this. I very loosely quote: “It’s like you’re a farmer with 100 chickens but only one bucket of corn...
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Building A User Testing Lab, Part 1
This is the first of three posts about my experience building a discount usability testing and user research lab with the team at Fullscreen. I’ll talk about why we’re doing this and touch on the...
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Building A User Testing Lab, Part 2
In this follow-up to my first post about building a discount usability testing and user research lab at Fullscreen, I’ll talk about setting up a space for testing and getting the right equipment on a...
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Building A User Testing Lab, Part 3
I wrote a couple of posts about preparing our discount usability testing and user research lab at Fullscreen with software, hardware and a physical space. In this third and final post, we get to put it...
View ArticleTwo Hours With Quartz Composer + Origami
Yeah, I’m jumping on the QC bandwagon while it’s hot. Last week like so many others like me I read the Fast Company article celebrating Facebook’s release of Origami, a plugin to Apple’s Quartz...
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You Don’t Have To Speak To Critique
This UX and design critique technique uses silence and post-its to make traditional design reviews more efficient and honest. By not speaking at all, everyone gets heard. So it’s basically like magic....
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