Pleasure and Pain

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Entries Tagged as 'Webapps'

Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts

December 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Design, User Experience

I’m a Tweetie fanatic — even if they haven’t updated Tweetie for Mac in ages and probably never will again — so I don’t use the #newtwitter web app very much at all. The other day I just happened to look at the footer and notice a link labeled Shortcuts. It opens the following layer: [...]

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A Book Apart: Empowering Fuzzy Teams in 100 Pages or Less

November 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Pleasure

On Sunday, I reread Jeremy Keith‘s HTML5 for Web Designers, from cover to cover, on the plane to An Event Apart San Diego. I first read it when it arrived on my doorstep in July, but I am in a different mindset now — beginning a new product adventure — and I wanted to refresh [...]

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NY Tech Meetup: The European Edition

January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Events

Last night, Dawn Barber and Meetup.com CEO and co-founder Scott Heiferman hosted a special edition of NY Tech Meetup at Meetup HQ. NY Tech Meetup: European Edition gave 11 startups from all over Europe the chance to wow us tough New Yorkers with 3-minute demos of their webapps. The companies are all 2009 winners of [...]

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Take our Twitter survey for a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card

December 1st, 2009 · 4 Comments · Twitter

It would mean a lot to me if you could please take a moment to complete the survey below. I’m helping to design a new Twitter client and your input will be invaluable. Thank you. Survey link: http://bit.ly/4mMZWJ Fill out my Wufoo form! Tweet this survey! Related Posts: Seeking All Independent User Experience Professionals in [...]

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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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