January 2012
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Jan 21st
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Jan 10th
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Jan 6th
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2012 New Year’s Resolutions →
Write a book Give an ignite talk Publish something 6 days a week Finish my office (floor, walls, desk, bookshelves) Truly learn Ruby on Rails or Python Beat my previous marathon time Grow
Jan 1st
December 2011
5 posts
[Friday Links] The Holiday Break Edition →
Dec 24th
Iterative Web Redesign – CASE V Presentation →
Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
Redesigned: Scholars Day website →
Dec 10th
The #NewNewTwitter in screenshots, my thoughts →
Interested in the #NewNewTwitter? I was totally bummed by their “rolling out the redesigned Twitter over the next few weeks” and realization that it could be weeks before I could play with the…
Dec 9th
November 2011
16 posts
A change in personnel →
Nov 30th
Nov 26th
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Why my dog has a twitter account but my daughter... →
I have been meaning to write this post for some time but to be honest time has escaped me this last month. Little things like being the technical director for TEDxDetroit, running the Chicago…
Nov 26th
“Most marketers shout and wait for an echo. Instead they should start a...”
– Via @uwcbpm (via eastofwabansia)
Nov 23rd
19 notes
[Friday Links] The Clean Up Edition →
Nov 20th
Campus tour check-in form design process →
Nov 18th
“I find that, more & more, I look outside #highered for suggestions, ideas,...”
– @ColB on Twitter (via takethecrosstown)
Nov 17th
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Nov 16th
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[Friday Links] The Future Friendly Edition →
Nov 13th
Welcome Shaun Pezeshki, our new full time Web... →
Nov 11th
Nov 9th
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Today@Wayne – Coming to your inbox every morning →
Nov 7th
Nov 6th
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Nov 6th
[Friday Links] The Baby Edition →
Nov 5th
Joy of Parenting
Pretty appropriate timing for this post :-) shitmystudentswrite: Having a child is not all that bad; they bring like some kind of undesirable happiness to a parent that really cares.
Nov 3rd
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October 2011
7 posts
[Friday Links] The UX Edition →
Oct 29th
Welcome Sarah Karolski – Our new part time project... →
Oct 28th
[Friday Links] The Lots Edition →
Oct 25th
Oct 23rd
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Oct 17th
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Captioned Videos playing on Digital Signs around... →
Oct 11th
Redesign: Counseling and Psychological Services... →
Oct 4th
September 2011
15 posts
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Sep 30th
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Sep 26th
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Sep 25th
“Information is expensive to produce and cheap to reproduce.”
– Bates, 1989; Shapiro & Varian 1999
Sep 25th
[Friday Links] The Inbox Zero Edition →
Sep 19th
Target.com Redesign →
cameronmoll: Wow, how’d I miss this news about this? I’m pretty sure someone made an argument like this at some point in the design process — and won: Look, everybody uses the search bar or those big fat categories strung across the top anyway. So, why not have a little fun with the rest of the page?
Sep 16th
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Coffee Wars – The results are in! →
Sep 15th
“Information science is the science of propagation of meaningful human messages.”
– Heilprin (1974)
Sep 4th
“It must be remembered that a reader, user, or consumer has access to many...”
– Shedroff, Nathan (2000). Information interaction design: A unified field theory of design.
Sep 4th
“A common language is of extreme advantage in our efforts to communicate, but it...”
– Pierce, J. (1972). Communication. Scientific American, 227(3):31-41.
Sep 4th
Image Maps – Ability vs. Appropriate Use →
I recently made a comment on an EDU Checkup episode about how the use of image maps was a negative aspect in the code of a website. I promptly got the following comment: I don’t get it. What’s…
Sep 3rd
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We ___________ Information
One of the first assignments for my class this semester asked us to fill in the blank with as many words as we can think of. It took 15 minutes but this is the list I came up with: Access, Create, Consume, Manage, Edit, Delete, Seek, Burn, Glorify, Believe, Trust, Write, Broadcast, Read, Organize, Randomize, Design, Curate, Author, Research, Review, Authenticate, Steal, Pirate, Spread,...
Sep 2nd
Sep 2nd
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Zach Waugh: How I name my apps →
zachwaugh: For the last couple of apps I’ve made, I’ve been creating a sort of mind map to help me come up with the name. Finding a good name for an app is hard, but having a somewhat formal and repeatable process has made it much easier for me. I say “sort of” mind map, because there aren’t really any…
Sep 2nd
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August 2011
10 posts
Aug 20th
“Only Geeks Understand Link Icons” →
cameronmoll: Peter Steen Høgenhaug, suggesting we consider using something other than the ubiquitous link icon for inserting hypertext links in an application: All in all, only 35.29% of the test participants understood the chain icon, and only 25% understood the globe icon. While we didn’t set a minimum for success, clearly, 25% is not good when it comes to usability. When being interviewed...
Aug 19th
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A/B Testing: Schedule a Campus Tour →
Aug 18th