Archive for June, 2009

What a week. Turning thirty is an event on its own, without the hard work of running and speaking at a major conference. However, either despite or because of the stress, UX London was a fantastic experience and one I can’t wait to repeat. Due to hurried tweaking of my slides I missed several workshops, [...]

Slides from my UX London workshop Getting Real About Agile Design: You can also download a PDF containing slides and my notes (33MB). Enjoy!

In 2007, as a frustrated in-house Information Architect, I was drawn to dConstruct by a fantastic lineup of user experience speakers including Jared Spool, Peter Merholz and Tom Coates. They didn’t disappoint. On the train back to London, I pondered how my horizons had expanded and how I still had plenty to learn. At the [...]

In the absence of sufficient time to finish my drafts, some interesting reading: The Dice-O-Matic — guy runs games server. Players complain of pseudo-random number generation. Guy builds gigantic dice rolling machine, capable of 1.3 million rolls a day. Burnout — new A List Apart article by Scott Boms. “Know thyself, but be gentle.” The [...]