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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Learning'
Whit Hour – Week 13
August 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Whit Hour
Thank you so much to the ~29 people who showed up for the thirteenth 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. Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour. Whit [...]
Tags:Books·Clients·Consulting·Innovation·Learning·Tools·User Experience·Whit Hour
Do Not Underestimate the Power of a Great PM
August 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Productivity
Brett Harned is one of the best project managers I’ve ever known. I have the pleasure of working with him at Happy Cog, and getting to watch his skills put to work for the benefit of our team and the client team alike. Despite being an adamantly behind-the-scenes kind of guy, he recently started blogging [...]
Tags:Clients·Learning·Productivity·Teams
Wondering? Ask me on Formspring!
July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Community
I recently set up an account on Formspring, a site that lets people ask and answer questions about anything at all. I’ve been asked 17 questions so far, and I’ve answered every one. So if you want to ask me something about user experience, consulting, writing, life in New York City, or whatever else is [...]
Evaluations of my STC Summit 2010 talks
July 14th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Conferences
A few months ago I wrote about my experience presenting at STC Summit in Dallas — my first time speaking at an event outside of UX and web design. Yesterday I received the evaluations of my two talks — 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design and Evangelizing Yourself — and I’m quite pleased [...]
