May 9th, 2010 | Please comment!
I love reading books, specifically books relating to my craft, even tagentially. So I started a book club for web professionals in the Triangle/Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill/Carborro area. Who is a web professional? Web pros are designers, developers, project managers and marketers. Our first meet is on the 19th, where we review Steve Krug’s “Rocket Surgery Made Easy.”
March 18th, 2010 | Please comment!
After peppering Telling Your Website’s Story with Sketchboarding with my comics, the guys at UX Booth thought it would be great if I could illustrate more articles for them in the future. Naturally I concurred that this would be a most excellent arrangement. I have already provided comic relief for Selling UX to Small Business [...]
March 10th, 2010 | Please comment!
Last year I was so dazzled by the speakers at Ignite Raleigh that I promised myself I would submit a presentation idea the next time around. A year later I submitted the talk below to Ignite Raleigh, but it was apparent that although it was was getting many votes, it would not make top ten. [...]
February 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Recently the awesome Andrew Maier of UX Booth approached me about illustrating his article, Telling Your Website’s Story with Sketchboarding (because of my comicking background, I imagine). I was only too happy to oblige! Below is an uncut version of two comics that got turned into one:
There are more comics in the article. Andrew did [...]
February 1st, 2010 | 4 Comments
I used to say that there were only three real uses for Flash: media players, animations, and games. (Everything else can be replicated with jQuery and AJAX.) These were the fingers with which Flash clung to the Internet. But one by one, they are being stomped on by HTML 5 and Javascript. And now that the ipad and iphone don’t support Flash, the tide is begining to turn for Adobe’s darling. Share with me this moment of schadenfreude…
January 9th, 2010 | Please comment!
2009 saw WordPress 2.7, 2.8, and 2.9 in rapid succession. As the platform continues to evolve toward perfection, its ease of use now extends even further to developers as well as end users. My favorite feature of the latest installment, WordPress 2.9, has to be the native post thumbnails support. You can now select an [...]
September 25th, 2009 | Please comment!
When I fell in love with my new smart car, I knew I had to create a blog all about the experience of owning one of these beauties. Little did I realize that lovemysmartcar.com would prove instrumental in dousing the flames of a viral if not inflammatory photograph. This site is a case in point for how social media can be used to deter viral bad press.
September 19th, 2009 | 3 Comments
I’d spent a lot of time writing a post about the glorious new tags introduced in HTML 5, but unfortunately, just as I was about to put it up, I caught wind that the spec for the <dialog> tag has been nixed. Considering that a hefty portion of my article was devoted to illustrating how [...]
May 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Over Memorial Day Weekend, I made a new background image and coordinating avatar for my Twitter account (psst, I’m CrowChick). While I was researching my task, I kept running into articles about “how to get the most out of Twitter,” articles from people who promised that with Twitter, you could “build a publicity powerhouse” and “harness the power of the masses.” This contrasts nicely with the opinion of a coworker of mine, who stated that, “Twitter is a waste of time.”
I agree with neither of these sentiments. Twitter is useful, but it isn’t the be-all and end-all of marketing or promotion. It’s best to think of Twitter as a supplementary item, like a MySpace page or Facebook presence. It can be useful on both a professional and a personal level.
In this article, I’ll try to dispel some Twitter myths and provide some insight to how you can get the most out of your Twitter account.
May 5th, 2009 | Please comment!
I’m delighted to announce that my latest article on usability has gone live at UXBooth. It’s all about, as you may have guessed, website navigation and how to keep users oriented and moving. Shoo shoo shoo! Go read it now! And of course, I’d love to hear what you think!
