Jobs flaunted the new OSX “Leopard” this week with a slew of new features. Unfortunately, one of them wasn’t the dropping of the silly cat names that makes it impossible to remember which version came after which. But there were some interesting features none-the-less. Time Machine looks great–a long needed push to get more of […]
Just letting folks know that we’ll be having our second-Saturday-of-the-month IA Meetup this Saturday (8/12) at 2:00pm at Loring Park Cafe in Minneapolis. Address: 1301 Harmon Place.
Discussion topic is pot luck, although I’d like to pick folk’s brains a bit about experiences with large-scale card sorting (pros and cons). Hope to see you there!
At the last house we renovated, we rented a bunch of mini dumpsters from TUBS, both on the move-in and the move-out. Each dumpster was about $100 and we got to keep them for a week. It worked well for things like, “clean out the garage this weekend”.
On the downside, the dumpster truck consistently […]
Julio reiterates the bane of Minnesota’s unwired professionals: places with a decent lunch don’t offer wireless internet access. I was on the same quest last week when my home-office DSL died.
Coffee shops have figured it out, but I know of two places (er, three, thanks Julio) with lunch and wifi here in Minneapolis.
Biking through […]
My most recent memory of Subway, was more than a year ago, and having a very um, uncomfortable afternoon after lunching on their Classic Tuna sub. Thankfully, that’s been replaced by something equally uncomfortable. Agency.com’s on-spec pitch to be Subway agency-of-record.
Other reaction from the blog/ad world:
Steve Rubel: “[Agency.com] set their entire credibility in the social […]
I ran across this section of a form today and thought it could use some improvement, simplification, etc. Rather than saying, ‘this is bad’ and leaving it at that, I thought there could be an interesting conversation about how to improve it. With that, it’s the first of what I’ve dubbed the ‘lunchtime redesign […]
By now, interactive writers everywhere have heard the bad news: we’re writing for people who don’t want to read. Online users don’t slowly digest our carefully crafted prose as we once hoped. By and large, they don’t linger over our clever turns of phrase and insightful flights of fancy. They skim and scan, impatient to […]
(I’ve been meaning to blog some business stuff. Garrick poked me (and a bunch of people) so whether he likes it or not, I’m going to post it here!)
A major mistake that some companies make is they assume an adversarial relationship with their vendors. I’ve always operated with the opposite agenda — be allies with […]
Hi,
Advanced warning–the next Twin Cities IA/UX Meetup is the Saturday AFTER NEXT 8/12 at 2:00 pm at Loring Park Cafe. I’m committed to sticking to the second Saturday schedule faithfully! Hope to see you there.
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