As some of you may know, I was computer scientist before I was a user experience designer. Because I was always on the computer, I was persuaded by an 8th grade teacher to enroll in the one high school computer science class when I entered the 9th grade, and I loved it so much that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Technology'
My high school computer science homework
March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Digressions, Technology
Tags:Career·History·Pleasure·Technology
Future of Web Apps — Miami 2009
February 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Conferences, Technology, Web Development
Last weekend, Orian and I flew down to Miami for BarCampMiami and Carsonified‘s Future of Web Apps (FOWA). Unfortunately I caught a cold and we missed most of BarCamp, but at least we made it to Fraser Kelton‘s presentation on AdaptiveBlue‘s Glue — a browser add-on that lets you see what your friends think about [...]
September 2008 IxDA NYC: Dan Saffer’s Tap is the New Click
September 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Events, Technology
In the midst of everything last week, I attended Dan Saffer‘s presentation Wednesday night at the IxDA NYC monthly meet-up, hosted at the beautiful R/GA offices (I particularly like the gated courtyard/parking lot in front of the building). Dan gave the same talk at Web 2.0 Expo NY earlier in the day, but I had [...]
Dare to VMware
March 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Technology
The design team at work recently switched to Macs and we’re running VMware Fusion for things like Microsoft Office, SharePoint and our proprietary trading software. There are some pretty cool things about VMware that are worth calling out before I get into the rough stuff. VMware has a feature called “Unity mode” (similar to Parallels’ [...]
Tags:Pain·Pleasure·User Experience
The JDate Toolbar
March 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Technology
I’m Jewish and I’m single, so it shouldn’t be any surprise to you that I’m on JDate. It’s raining and I’m home on a Friday night, so obviously I signed on. And what did I see? The JDate Toolbar! I’ve used JDate on and off for years, and one day when I have the time [...]
