In the midst of everything last week, I attended Dan Saffer’s presentation Wednesday night at the IxDA NYC monthly meet-up, hosted at the beautiful R/GA offices (I particularly like the gated courtyard/parking lot in front of the building).
Dan gave the same talk at Web 2.0 Expo NY earlier in the day, but I had missed [...]
Entries from September 22nd, 2008
September 2008 IxDA NYC: Dan Saffer’s Tap is the New Click
September 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Events, Technology
Conference Twittering
September 22nd, 2008 · 7 Comments · Conferences, Twitter
I wanna get something off my chest. Some people don’t like that I use Twitter to take notes at conferences. Several people stopped following me this week while I was at Web 2.0 Expo. I’m sad to see them go, but I don’t apologize. I get an enormous amount of support for my live-tweeting (see [...]
Tags:Conferences·Twitter
Email: “Legibility — Grading, Testing, and Standards”
September 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Accessibility
I received the most curious email this morning. At first I thought it was spam, but after reading through it I think it’s a legitimate question for me and may be based on my previous post on Helvetica. I’m not sure what to make of it so I’m posting it here. Leave your thoughts in [...]
Tags:Accessibility·Design·Pain
Helvetica & Lessons for Experience Designers
September 21st, 2008 · 10 Comments · Design
I just finished watching Helvetica, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit. I’ve been dying to see it since it was released, and finally got around to it this afternoon (I had convinced myself it was a daytime movie and not meant to be watched at night).
Less than two minutes into the film I realized that [...]
Tags:Design·Innovation·Learning
Web 2.0 Expo NY: “Content Matters” panel moderated by Liz Danzico
September 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Conferences
The last session that I attended at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a star-studded panel moderated by Liz Danzico featuring Jeffrey Zeldman, Alex Wright, Kristina Halvorson, Paul Ford, and Bre Pettis.
My Twitter notes on the session:
Types of content: navigation & orientation content, labels & action content, help content, non-textual content, content content!
Navigation & orientation sets [...]
Tags:Conferences·Learning
