Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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@whitneyhess on Acela Express

June 15th, 2009 · Comments · Photography

When Jeffrey Zeldman uploads your photo to Flickr, you blog it.

@whitneyhess on Acela Express
Originally uploaded by Jeffrey Zeldman
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IA Summit 2009: A functional family reunion

March 29th, 2009 · Comments · Community, Conferences

Families fight. When you share that much time with the same people, and put your faith in them, and share a common history, and become reliant on one another’s successes, it’s very easy to feel disappointed and confused and argumentative when things don’t seem to be going right. But ultimately what allows you to express [...]

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I have joined the UXnet board of directors

February 4th, 2009 · Comments · Career, Pleasure

In mid-December, the venerable Lou Rosenfeld asked me if I would join the UXnet board of directors. Saying no to Lou would have been wildly foolish. After all, he literally wrote the book on information architecture. Initially published in February 1998, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, co-written with Peter Morville, is one of [...]

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Happy Cog and Happy Whitney

November 19th, 2008 · Comments · Career, Consulting

Shortly after I quit my full-time job in late August to become an independent consultant, the ubiquitous Liz Danzico kindly referred me to Jeffrey Zeldman for a short-term gig with Happy Cog.
If you haven’t heard of Happy Cog, they are an internationally-recognized web design consultancy responsible for the design of Ma.gnolia, Advertising Age, Housing [...]

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I was asked to join the IAI Board of Advisors

November 17th, 2008 · Comments · Career

You may remember that I ran for the Information Architecture Institute’s board of directors in September, but wasn’t elected.
Though I couldn’t announce it until recently, three weeks ago I was asked by the new Board of Directors — Jorge Arango, Peter Boersma, Christian Crumlish, Andrew Hinton, Livia Labate, Stacy Surla, and Russ Unger — to [...]

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