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Entries from March 2007

SXSW: Grids are Good (and so was the session!)

March 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Grids are Good and How to Design with them was by far the best session I’ve attended so far. I was disappointed that it was only 30 minutes long as Mark Boulton and Khoi Vinh were great presenters and made grid theory very accessible. Here are some highlight points from their presentations.

Humans like to infer […]

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Tags: Conferences · SXSW · Web Design

SXSW: Why We Should Ignore Users

March 12th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Here are some of my notes from Why we should ignore users

Activity vs People centered design

People adapt to technology all the time, don’t make technology adapt to people

Look for trends, not 1-off request
def. Genius design: Hire better, do less user testing

The conclusion the panel somewhat seemed to agree upon was that users vary so much […]

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Tags: Conferences · SXSW

SXSW: The Weekend in Review

March 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Ah, the highs and lows of SXSW. The conference sessions this year have been hit and miss, and honestly it’s been a 50/50 split in that respect. This year, there are two 30 minute tracks in the afternoon in what I perceive as a way to simply have more panels. While theoretically this is a […]

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Tags: Conferences · SXSW

HighEdWebDev — The Blog

March 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Our friends at HighEdWebDev have a blog. It’s brand new, so not a lot of content, but it will be nice to have an RSS feed and not worry about missing the various e-mails for the 2007 conference.

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Tags: Conferences

SXSW Bound

March 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In a few hours (unless my flight gets delayed further) I’ll be headed to Austin for SouthBySouthwest 2007. Here are some of the sessions I’m thinking about attending. Of course these are all subject to change based on conflicting times, etc. I’ll fill out the rest of my schedule once I have the program guide. […]

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Tags: Conferences

Time for SXSW

March 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Wherein Scott goes to SXSW and I post a funny picture.

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Tags: Conferences

A New Rails Launch

March 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Wherein we talk of launching a new app and our awesome new production server setup.

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Tags: Ruby on Rails · Web Development