My new friend Dave Dawson recently graduated college and moved from Cambridge to NYC. While I was timid and intimidated when I first entered the working world, Dave is quite the opposite –– he is eager to put himself out there, meet lots of new people, and see what the city has to offer. Over [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Events'
Whit Hour – Week 5
September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Whit Hour
Thank you so much to the 20 or so folks who showed up for the fifth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. I particularly appreciate your patience and determination to stick with [...]
Tags:Career·Clients·Consulting·Events·HCI·Learning·Social Networking·Twitter·Usability testing·User Experience·Whit Hour
My DIY UX talk is featured in InformationWeek
August 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Articles, Events, User Experience
Many thanks go to Allen Stern of CenterNetworks for covering my DIY UX presentation in the InformationWeek blog. He was in attendance when I gave the talk to about 25 people at the NYC Customer Development Process Meetup last week. Read his article: DIY Usability For Startups I will be giving the presentation again at [...]
Tags:Articles·Events·New York·Props·Speaking·User Experience
IxDA NYC: Todd Zaki Warfel’s Prototyping for UX Practitioners
August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Events
On August 13, the venerable Todd Zaki Warfel of Messagefirst gave a great talk on prototyping (on which he is the premier speaker) at the monthly IxDA NYC event. His energy and engaging style really got the crowd pumped up. We even did a group exercise towards the end of the evening. My Twitter notes [...]
Help me celebrate my 1st year of self-employment
August 12th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Career, Events
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been a year since I quit my full-time job to give independent consulting a try. In a nutshell, it was the best decision I’ve ever made. I plan on writing a longer post to wrap up the year, but in the meantime I wanted to invite you all [...]
