January 2012
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TLDR: Beware of ugly, confusing, deceiving... →
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“If the anxiety is about the deadline, then the energy really focuses on the...”
– Christoph Niemann (via The 99 Percent)
December 2011
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October 2011
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“It’s not ‘who you share with,’ it’s ‘who you share...”
– 4chan’s Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
Brief, brilliant points.
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The Rise of the Zuckerverb: The New Language of... →
Stitching together these simple declarative statements into an autobiographical timeline creates a pale simulacrum of personal story-telling, no matter how much Facebook presents it as a way to “tell your story.”
This is what happens when language is optimized for social data-mining rather than natural communication.
Ideally it’d be the other way around - we’d be...
August 2011
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“As long as we focus on the object we know, we will miss the new one we need to...”
– Cathy Davidson
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“Eventually everything connects…
The quality of the connections is the...”
– Charles Eames
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“Nowadays, it’s just as important for a science building to behave like a...”
– Inga Saffron: Changing Skyline: Biology central | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/12/2011
Can’t wait to go back and see the inside of this building. Watching it being constructed the past few years, I’m not the biggest fan of the outside, but the concepts behind the whole package are good.
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“Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham
July 2011
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“Design is not a form of art, not a form of science, and not a form of...”
– Erik Stolterman
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“If you’re not disruptive, everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not...”
– Robert Adamson via Molly Holzschlag @WhartonWebConf
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“While life may imitate art, it’s not necessarily meant to be displayed as such”
– Conceptual Suburbia: A Design Project Descends on Levittown - Allison Arieff - NYTimes.com
Fascinating failure to work with “users”
June 2011
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May 2011
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“The librarian isn’t a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian...”
– Seth’s Blog: The future of the library
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“AIM was also a sliver of who you were. In many ways, it was the internet’s...”
– Remember When AOL Instant Messenger Was Our Facebook? - Gizmodo
I grew up on AIM, and this article captures a lot of thoughts I’ve had about it over the years. Oh, nostalgia.
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April 2011
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WatchIs Marketing the Evil Empire? | UX Magazine
LOVE Eric Reiss’s answer. All others are pretty great too.
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Brad's Ramblings: Do Designers Need To Know How To... →
Someday perhaps I’ll be a unicorn. But for now, a generalist. It would be nice to be a specialist for a time to become more deeply versed in certain areas, but I don’t know if I’d like not having a hand throughout the design process. Though maybe it would depend on the project.
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Looking for love: A portfolio story
I’ve been agonizing for months trying to get my portfolio together, getting little bits done here and there and always being derailed by schoolwork, The Triangle, and general overextension of myself. I thought for sure I’d get it done before Interaction11, but even skipping sleep the night before and working through most of the plane and bus rides, I just couldn’t get it to a...
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“We are lately learning that designers absolutely need to be able to change their...”
– Chris Fahey via Whitney Hess - Process, Not Portfolio :: UXmatters
March 2011
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Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation →
Quite appropriate to follow the new UX Zeitgeist. I’ve been looking for/thinking about building a UX curation system for a while now, but on first glance it looks like they hit the nail on the head.
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“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith....”
– Steve Jobs, 2005
Seems to be a common theme in my life today.
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The Work I Love →
Well said as always @whitneyhess. You never cease to inspire me :)
Now time for me to get off of Twitter and back to work on my portfolio so I can hopefully get some work I love.
February 2011
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January 2011
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“Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand.”
– Ben Shneiderman’s Visual Information Seeking Mantra (1996)
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“If you’re building a product people love, you can make a lot of mistakes.”
– Mark Zuckerberg, “A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg” - Web 2.0 Summit 2010
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Good & Bad
Discussion assignment for my IA grad class this week was the classic “pick a good and bad website” topic (much less interesting than last week’s focus on DTDT). I feel like as a UX person I should have a list of examples on hand at all times — maybe I’ll start a Delicious set (or Diigo…if I ever get around to totally switching over now that the Delicious...
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“In times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves...”
– Eric Hoffer (via Fatima on the IAI list)
December 2010
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“The Library of Congress should have bought it, similar to the way it has now...”
– Marshall Kirkpatrick, RWW, R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
Perhaps Yahoo should just donate all the public data to the LC? No sense letting it disappear.
Sad, but at least this finally gives me a reason to switch totally to diigo. Started using it a few weeks ago to gather research...
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52 Weeks of UX: Words are the soul of UX →
52weeksofux:
Words are the soul of user experience. More than any other design element, words communicate the bulk of the messages we communicate to others. Whether they are spoken or written, there’s a fine line between lazily sending generic, expected messages and taking a few minutes to say something…
November 2010
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Everyone's an Architect - Architect Magazine →
via the IAI list…Interesting how “architecture” has been co-opted, and I’m a part of it.
Starting around 6th grade I wanted to grow up to be an architect. I did some freelance drafting and took a couple classes in high school, but ended up switching my focus to computing after attending the (now no longer state funded) Pa. Governor’s School for IT at Drexel. If not...
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October 2010
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September 2010
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Libraries as service rather than resources
First post of the term for online class INFO 653: Digital Libraries. I wasn’t expecting much for this class, but based on the readings so far and the syllabus, it’s looking pretty exciting. Thinking about expanding on the service definition and into a discussion of service design for my term paper…
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Apologizing in advance: I feel like such a poor library student for using...
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“Research and practice have a symbiotic relationship. Interesting research...”
– Christine L. Borgman, p.229 of “What are digital libraries? Competing visions” in Information Processing and Management, 35 (1999)
Moderately random paragraph in the article that speaks to the disconnect and potential complementary nature of UX practice v. academia. Looking forward to...
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Late-Night Revelation: If only the world were a... →
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