March 2009

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Design
Design at Google
03.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Over the last week, a series of fascinating articles have been written about design within the walls of Google. Prior to reading these posts, much of my insight to what design means there has been gossip and assumption. Of course, there’s also what I’ve learned from Margaret Gould Stewart.

MX 2008 | Margaret Gould Stewart from [...]
Prototyping
Prototyping Tools
03.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I am a fan of prototyping and have recently taking up the charge to promote designing with prototypes over wireframes. Over on the Adaptive Path blog I just wrote a post about it. I’m collecting a list of prototyping tools and could use your help to help make it event better. Leave a comment on [...]
Cycling
Will You Help Me Fight Cancer?
03.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Once again, I am mounting my trusted steed and riding 100 miles in San Jose’s boiling July sun to raise money for the cancer fight. I know that this is a tough time for fundraising as we are all low on funds. Please remember that cancer does not care if the economy is good or [...]
Design, Prototyping, Technology
Wikirank
03.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

A couple of former Adaptive Pathers are building a new company, Small Batch. Their first experiment is a site called Wikirank.
“Wikirank shows you what people are reading on Wikipedia. It’s based on the actual usage data from the Wikipedia servers, which the Wikimedia foundation makes available as a public service. We take that data, process [...]