Thank you so much to the ~27 people who showed up for the fourteenth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me.
Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour.
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Entries Tagged as 'Digressions'
Whit Hour – Week 14
August 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Whit Hour
Tags:Clients·Consulting·Coworking·Digressions·New York·User Research
Fun Times in Mini-Apple-Us
July 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Digressions, Travel
When I was asked to speak at An Event Apart Minneapolis, I thought, “An Event Apart, yes! Minneapolis, whatever.” I wasn’t expecting much from my trip to the Twin Cities — but I was dead wrong.
Flying over Minnesota for the first time a week ago today, all I could see was a flat expanse of [...]
Tags:Digressions·Pleasure·Travel
Being a godmother is like being a user experience designer
May 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Pleasure, Strategy, User Experience
On April 18, 2010, Griffin James Lam Konig was born at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasett, NY, weighing in at 7 lbs 13 oz.
Griffin’s mom Donna is the 39-year-old daughter of my childhood babysitter Theresa (who I’ve always called T-T).
The day after Griffin came home from the hospital, twenty-seven years after Theresa welcomed [...]
I am (more than?) a bunch of adjectives
January 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Digressions
I think like a lot of us, I have an incessant need to see myself reflected by others in order to believe that I am who I think I am. Positively and negatively. I save adjectives like souvenirs, reminders of when I got them and from whom. I wear them as badges, as armor. When [...]
Tags:Digressions·Realizations
Happy New Year to You
January 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Digressions
2010 is here and I can hardly believe it. A new decade. A new period of time to look forward to with high expectations and even higher hopes.
At this time….
…ten years ago, I was starting my last semester of high school and looking forward to the freedom of college.
…five years ago, I was starting [...]
