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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pioneers'
Happy Cog and Happy Whitney
November 19th, 2008 · 20 Comments · Career, Consulting
Tags:Career·Consulting·Pioneers·Pleasure
I was asked to join the IAI Board of Advisors
November 17th, 2008 · 6 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 [...]
UX Bookshelf
July 19th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Design, User Experience
In the right sidebar of my blog I promote my UX Bookshelf. I use Amazon Associates just to get the smallest kickback (I’ve never actually made any money with this, but I’d like to!). The other day I noticed that they have a new carousel widget (released in April) that allows you to display up [...]
IA Summit 2008 Opening Keynote: “Journey to the Center of Design” by Jared Spool
April 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Conferences
Jared Spool did the opening keynote presentation early this morning at IA Summit 2008. His talk, titled Journey to the Center of Design, was funny enough to keep us awake and provocative enough to keep us listening.
He opened it up by flatly stating:
“User-centered design has never worked.”
He went on to talk about [...]
Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Linkage
Facebook Hires Google Executive as No. 2 – New York Times
iPhonic: Steve Wozniak has another pop at the iPhone
Will Tomorrow’s World Still Need Designers? / frogblog / frog design
35 Ways to Stream Your Life – ReadWriteWeb
Data is the New Links
Tim Berners-Lee Says Sites That Don?t Give Users Their Data Back Are Boring
Official Google Blog: Hello, [...]
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