I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours: enhancing communication between...
Are engineers from Mars, and designers from Venus? Communication between the two groups is famously fraught with difficulty: they speak different vocabularies, often have different cultural values, and...
View ArticleWhat if the designer gets hit by a truck?: wrangling digital design artifacts
On a design team, one major challenge is simply keeping track of the design artifacts generated by your designers. Whether you’re taking digital photos of a whiteboard or crafting ray-traced buttons in...
View ArticleJava Package Structures Considered Harmful
As I get more experienced with ergonomic languages like Ruby, the sharper, stupider parts of Java are coming into sharper relief for me. Fortunately, at least some of these problems are cultural rather...
View ArticleGoogle WebSite Optimizer
I’m testing out google website optimizer on this blog … hence the funny avatar photos on the top right. The idea of website optimizer is pretty simple: 1) Configure a couple of alternatives to the...
View ArticleWhy can’t I just “rent a DVD” online?
Over the last couple of months I’ve been trying to set up my television for watching video content online. Like many people, I don’t feel I like I get enough value from my cable TV subscription to...
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