My dear friend and “girl developer” Sara Chipps has been making waves in the tech community with her new initiative Girl Develop IT. Recently featured on ReadWriteWeb, Girl Develop IT strives to narrow the gender divide in tech by offering an extremely low-cost series of classes on programming to women who want to build their [...]
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If the product doesn’t work, its “user experience” doesn’t matter
August 18th, 2010 · 8 Comments · User Experience
I recently edited an article for UX Magazine (When You Startup with UX) in which I interviewed four startups on what User Experience means to them. Of all the things that people said, the quote that stood out to me the most was from Mike Singleton, a developer at Foursquare: “…when you only have three [...]
Tags:Argument·Development·Methodology·Realizations·User Experience
Developing a Website
March 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Web Development
I am a designer and not a developer, but every now and then I like to tinker with code — you know, just to prove that I made the right career choice. I started out as a computer science major after all. Sometimes when I get a side job to design a website, I end [...]
Tags:Development·Pain
