Today is my last day of full-time employment. I have resigned from my role of Design Communicator at Liquidnet, and as of tomorrow will officially be an independent user experience design consultant. The notion of working for myself has always been there, lurking in the dark recesses of my mind. My parents are entrepreneurs and [Keep Reading…]
Archives for 2008
Links from 8/8/2008 to 8/18/2008
UI-patterns.comBy Anders Toxboe, a Danish web developer Smashing Darling: A Tweet for Your NeckA Twitter necklace… Me likey! Pen Zen: Bring Clarity to Writing | ThinkSimpleNow.comvia @korf420 2008 US Movie Box OfficeGreat data visualization of box office earnings this year The "Mojave Experiment"What do people think of Vista when they don't know it's Vista? I [Keep Reading…]
Links from 7/24/2008 to 7/31/2008
Blogging’s Glass Ceiling – NYTimes.comAbout the BlogHer conference Assessing Weights for Users’ Needs, Part 1 » UIE Brain SparksWeighted Differences Matrix quantifies the differences between multiple design alternatives Case Study: Comparing Design Alternatives » UIE Brain SparksOn a shoe-string budget Bait and switchSeth Godin talks about Pleasure and Pain (via @daveixd)
Leaving for Israel
Pleasure and Pain is going on vacation If you follow me on Twitter, you probably already know that I leave tonight for Birthright, a free 10-day trip to Israel for Jews between the ages of 18 and 26. I will be traveling with 40 or so other people through URJ KESHER, one of Taglit-Birthright‘s 30 [Keep Reading…]
The outpouring of love for Randy Pausch
When I found out yesterday morning that Randy Pausch had passed away the night before, I felt a wave of regret pour over me. For the things I never said. Like: “Thank you for showing me that my purpose in life is to make other people’s lives better.” That would have been a good start. [Keep Reading…]
Pleasure and Pain on Blog Talk Radio
Huge thanks goes to Liz for alerting me to the fact that Pleasure and Pain, in particular the post I Am Not A Woman Blogger, was mentioned briefly on BlogWorld Expo’s show on Blog Talk Radio yesterday. Tim Turner and Rick (?) hosted yesterday’s edition of BlogWorld Radio with guests Laura Fitton a.k.a. Pistachio, Lucretia [Keep Reading…]
Randy Pausch loses battle with pancreatic cancer at 47
For those of you who have never heard of Randy Pausch, he was a much admired professor at Carnegie Mellon (my alma mater), and became world-renowned for his “Last Lecture” delivered last September in which he emphatically discussed how to really achieve all of your childhood dreams (he did!). Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer [Keep Reading…]
Links from 7/13/2008 to 7/24/2008
Facebook Connect Launches with 24 Partners Including Digg and Six Apart** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Facebook has announced the official launch of its Facebook Connect offering, which will allow users to port their profile data to third-party Web sites. The company is announcing 24 lau The Toad Stool [Keep Reading…]
I Am Not A Woman Blogger
I am a woman (if the photo wasn’t clear). But I am not a woman blogger. BlogHer ’08 is going on in San Francisco right now. I know some ladies who are there, and it would’ve been great to be there just to meet a new-and-noteworthy group of people. But I have to be honest [Keep Reading…]
10 Worthwhile Twitter Bots
Yeah, you get it. I love Twitter. It’s a great place to connect with new and interesting people, but it’s also just a good platform for information delivery and in some cases productivity. Some of these are actual bots (automated accounts) while others are just run by an organization — I’m lumping them into the [Keep Reading…]
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