I’ll never not find this funny… I usually use this cartoon with a caption about how we as product developers look at our users. I generally try to keep my musing about politics and my professional life as separate as possible. But I’ve been thinking over an intersection between my passion for user research and product…
One of the most frustrating things about developing for Windows Phone 7 has been the experience with the application approval process. To illustrate the problems my team is having, let us demonstrate with a theoretical sample application. Let’s say we want an application for reading all of Shakespeare’s sonnets. There are 154 of them, so…
I haven’t posted in a while due to my schedule. But I have also clearly lost my mind as evidenced by the fact that I managed to write and perform half of a rap battle without once thinking to myself, “This is clearly an insane idea.” Jason Alderman and I wrote and performed a rap…
I was digging through all the sessions submitted for the MIX10 Open Call last week and I decided that there had to be a better way to browse through the data to find sessions that might be interesting. So I spent the weekend hacking together this Silverlight visualization of the MIX10 Open Call sessions. If…