Institutional Knowledge

With the ATI project about to hit full swing, I sat in on a 30 minute power session as SXSW titled Accessified! Practical Accessibility Fixes Any Web Developer Can Use. Here are some notes and thoughts I took away from the session.

Don’t be a tool. Use One

There are pleanty of free tools out there for […]

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Perhaps one of the best sessions I attended at SXSW 2007 was Web Typography Sucks by Richard Rutter and Mark Boulton. In conjunction with the Grids are Good session and the world premiere of the documentary Helvetica, the Web Typography Sucks session re-enforced the idea that we as web developers/designers must not forget the understated […]

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

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Wherein I lament missing a conference.

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You have to hand it to the folks at LSU. Even after Katrina, they forged ahead with an impressive (both in terms of scale and services offered) computing space buildout, taking advantage of a new coffeeshop and some other underutilized space on campus to create an excellent hybrid technology environment. Loosely themed as a “collaborative […]

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