Big week ahead
This week we head out to the IA Summit and present our workshop on writing, using and building a pattern library and using that with code to prototype and build...
Category: User Experience
Getting your game on
One of my longtime colleagues and friend Matt Leacock, who is an amazing interaction designer, is also a board game designer. He often has coworkers alpha and b...
Conducting a workshop at the 2008 IA Summit – register now!
I am conducting a preconference workshop, with my esteemed colleagues Christian Crumlish and Lucas Pettinati, on building a pattern library and using patterns a...
IA Summit 2008 Here we come
Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati and I submitted a pre-conference workshop and we just got notice that we were accepted. Watch for more info but we will be c...
Seeking the future through the past
My friend, Alex Wright, an IA at the NY Times, recently published an article, Friending, Ancient or Otherwise on the NY Times. The article looks at the recent t...
YDN Theater and Patterns
Christian Crumlish, our Pattern Library curator, over here at Yahoo!, was recently filmed giving a brownbag on the pattern library to Yahoo!’s UED organiz...
How to Submit a Proposal
I just finished as a reviewer for the IA Summit submissions and I have a whole new respect for how difficult it is to select and craft a program for a conferenc...
the importance of a common language
I am working on writing a set of use cases for a new project and as I am writing it occurs to me that the team I am working with calls all the different parts o...