I was just smacked in the face by a recent blog post by my dear friend Jeffrey Zeldman, Free advice: show up early, about the consequences of being late to client meetings. Why? Because it forced me to finally fess up to one of my major flaws: I’m always five minutes late.
Sure, five minutes [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Inspiration'
I admit it: I’m always five minutes late. And it stops now.
February 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Pain, Productivity
Tags:Clients·Inspiration·Pain·Pioneers·Productivity·Realizations
New to New York?
November 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Events
My new friend Dave Dawson recently graduated college and moved from Cambridge to NYC. While I was timid and intimidated when I first entered the working world, Dave is quite the opposite –– he is eager to put himself out there, meet lots of new people, and see what the city has to offer.
Over [...]
Tags:Events·Inspiration·New York
U.S. Patent 7,587,349
September 29th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Career
I am thrilled to report that U.S. Patent 7,587,349 was granted on September 8, 2009, and I am named as a co-inventor!
This has been more than 4 years in the making. My first job out of grad school in January 2005 was at Digitas as a Senior Interaction Designer, and one of my first [...]
IDEA 2009: Social and Experience Design – Day 2
September 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Conferences
This is a continuation of my coverage from the IDEA Conference in Toronto from September 15-16, 2009. My Day 1 roundup can be found here.
Day 2 also had a great lineup of speakers:
Tim Queenan
Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone
Matthew Milan
Mari Luangrath
Stephen Anderson
My Twitter notes from the conference are below. Enjoy!
Tim Queenan
Day 2 of IDEA [...]
IDEA 2009: Social and Experience Design – Day 1
September 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Conferences
I’m in Toronto this week for IDEA 2009, the conference run by the Information Architecture Institute. This year’s theme is Social and Experience Design. Speakers from a variety of backgrounds are helping us understand how to make informed and insightful design decisions based on the ever-changing landscape of the web caused in large part by [...]
