Entries from November 2006

November 19, 2006

Stranger than Fiction

We’re visiting the family this week for Thanksgiving.  Since the grandparents love to spend time with the kids, we thought we would take the chance to go see a movie.  We went to see Stranger than Fiction.  The movie was great with one exception.  In about every fourth camera angle, the boom mic was visible [...]

November 16, 2006

Development Methodologies pt. 1

I have spent quite a bit of time lately thinking about how development style, process, and company culture help to foster great design or hinder it.   Small companies have a great ability to be very creative and move quickly on concepts since all of the stakeholders are in the same room all the time.  Anyone [...]

November 14, 2006

BayCHI

Today Rashmi Sinha asked me if I wanted to give my Great UI talk at BayCHI on December 12th.  Of course I accepted, it’s BayCHI afterall.   I have attended several talks at Xerox Parc, but it will be great to actually talk there.