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What Would Tim Gunn Say About A Web Design?
Still digesting all the amazing information I learned while at Jared Spool’s UI15 conference, I find myself in a silly mood on this gorgeous Fall Friday afternoon. A while ago I posted this question...
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The Rules I Will Present By
Will I ever be lucky enough to give a talk at a major user experience conference? No idea. Part of me wants to barf just thinking about it. Another part of me is just dying to try it. Someday if I...
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I Like To Do Drawrings
Well you know my name is Megan and I like to do drawrings. I made a drawring. Do you want to see it? Do you? This is a drawring I made of Simon’s Daddy at the Roulette table. His Daddy was shouting...
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Help Clients Find The Web Design of Their Dreams
Growing up my Mom used to dread going shopping for Prom dresses because I’d have a vision of what I wanted in my head. We’d go to the mall and hunt through store after store. My Mom would hold up...
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A Recipe for a Lighter F.I.D.O. Method
I’m a dog fanatic. Specifically, BIG dogs. Sure I love them all, but I have a preference. I’ll pass on Puntable Pooches and take a Big Bruiser any day. So naturally when I stumbled upon the “FIDO...
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Counting Down to the 2011 IA Summit
On Saturday, April 2nd at 9:00 AM I may have my first out-of-body experience. There are only 8 days left. Only 8 days until I take the IA Summit stage for the very first time. It will be the first...
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IA Summit 2011 Talk: The Reluctant Design Strategist
::deep sigh:: It’s over. Already. The IA Summit 2011 just ended. I survived my out of body experience. I met lots of great people along the way. And I learned new things. My goal was to have 5...
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Is Imagination Dead? They Quit the Marshmallow Challenge
In my day going to the office with Mom or Dad was a BIG stinky deal. You wore your good clothes. You were on your best behavior. You smiled really purdy even when your Mom’s boss pinched your cheeks so...
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“Keep it? Pull It?” – An I Can’t Garden App
“May I just say it cracks me up to walk into your office and see a picture of an iPhone with the word WEED! sketched on it?” – A colleague While weeding the garden (a garden I did not plant) I kept...
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We Did It! “Trading Cards” from Gamestorming
Last week we finally had the chance to road test some of the games described in Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown and James Macanufo....
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Doing It In the Dark
Yes, I’ve been on hiatus. I was working on a high quality deliverable for most of last year. It is going to change the world. And now that it is complete, I can tell you what I have learned. What is...
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Behavioral Heuristics: You ‘Like’ Me! You Really ‘Like’ Me!
“So, yeah, I’m having trouble getting people to ‘like’ me.” The room erupted in laughter as our colleague concluded his story. HE was not the problem. HE is a very likeable guy! The like button on a...
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My Fast and Furious Cooper U: UX Bootcamp Experience
It was early June when the Cooper Journal came to my In Box and the lead story announced the next UX Bootcamp. Over the years I heard Cooper was one of the best places to go for UX training and I...
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If Lou, Gerry, and Kristina Had a Baby…
There are two things you should know about this post before you go further. First, I’d like your help. Please thoughtfully disagree with this approach and tell me why. References to support your...
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Milton from Office Space, Swingline Staplers, and 10-Year Old UX Conversations
Like Milton from the cult classic, Office Space, I’m being moved to a new office. I think this will be my eleventh or twelfth office move. I believe I hold the unofficial record for Least Time Spent...
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Windows 8 – Cramazing Usability for Novice and Power Teen Users?
I feel like reading Jakob Nielsen articles is a mandatory assignment in the UX field. So along with everyone else in the community last week I read his latest article, “Windows 8 — Disappointing...
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Using the 960 Grid in PowerPoint Wireframes
Hasn’t someone out there created a PowerPoint template with guides set to the same dimensions as the 960 grid? And haven’t they allowed the world to take it and use it at no cost? Surely the answer is...
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I’m Baaacccckkkk – Iterating JJG’s Nine Pillars
Hi Mom and Dad (a.k.a. Readers of my Blog), I know you’ve missed seeing articles from me! I wish I could say I was taking a break from my blog because I was writing a killer user experience book that...
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Selecting Fonts that Look Good Together
In my next life I want to come back as a typographer. And a rodeo barrel racer. But let’s focus on fonts and typography today. As a kid I loved writing my friends’ names in huge block letters on...
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Read, Watch, and Learn List
Read Life’s Work: Marc Newson “I design 85% of the stuff that comes out of my studio because that’s the part of my job I like.” Sticking with his passion when he could have made a different choice....
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