The blog post I wrote about six weeks ago titled, You’re not a user experience designer if…, got way more attention than I ever could have predicted — in fact, I think it got the most traffic of any post I’ve ever written. Sure, it’s an antagonistic title and that always gets people riled up. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Community'
Follow-up to “You’re not a user experience designer if…”
June 7th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Blogging, Community, User Experience
Samantha LeVan’s Lame Cancer
April 1st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Community, Pain
A year ago March 28, my close friend Samantha LeVan sent me a fairly routine email asking me if she could pass my info along to a young web designer looking for a mentor. It was so nondescript that I might have put it off for a few days, busy with other things. I’m glad [...]
Tags:Community·Inspiration·Pain
Visualizing First-Time Interactions at SXSW
March 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Community, Social Networking
You might remember the near-novel I wrote a couple months ago on LinkedIn InMaps titled, “Hubs and Connectors: Understanding Networks Through Data Visualization.” Now New Work City member Alex Shapiro, founder of CEO of TouchGraph, has created a powerful network visualization based on contact exchanges made via Hashable at SXSW. The Java applet allows you [...]
NY Tech Meetup — March 2011
March 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Events, Startups
It’s been a really long time since I’ve done a NY Tech Meetup roundup, but Tuesday night’s event was so great that I thought it would be worth posting my tweets here. I know it’s not much, but it’s all I’ve got. The presenters were: RadBox Tout SocialWorkout Tim Soo‘s Invisible Instruments Aviary Crisp Media [...]
Hubs and Connectors: Understanding Networks Through Data Visualization
January 29th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Community, Pleasure, Social Networking
Yesterday a bunch of friends were tweeting about the new LinkedIn InMaps web app (part of LinkedIn Labs), so I had to check it out for myself. Wow, wow, wow! InMaps are data visualizations of your professional network, based on LinkedIn connections, with you as the center node. I’ve been waiting years for LinkedIn to [...]
Tags:Community·Data Visualization·Pleasure·Social Networking
