Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

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Entries Tagged as 'Web Development'

Whit Hour – Week 15

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 33 people who showed up for the fifteenth 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 [...]

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My notes from An Event Apart Chicago 2009

October 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Conferences

Earlier this week, I went into detail about my experience as a speaker at An Event Apart Boston and Chicago 2009. Here are my Twitter notes from last week’s Chicago event. I had amazing time getting to hear design and development tips and inspiration from some of the most prominent speakers in the field. I [...]

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What the customer actually wanted

October 1st, 2009 · 8 Comments · Design, Humor, Pain

A few weeks ago Orian sent me a hilarious but sad cartoon on the all-too-familiar process of cumulative error and product dilution during a project life cycle: customer request -> finance -> engineering -> manufacturing -> marketing -> delivery. Not only do we fail to deliver on what was proposed, but what the customer said [...]

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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 [...]

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