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2012/05/09 An Emerging Ethos for Web Designers and Developers2012/05/04 Buying Tires Online: A Narrative Case Study2012/03/18 Speculating About Apple’s Media Event Teaser2012/02/15 User Experience as Differentiation for Web Designers2011/12/14 Mobile and Flow: A Perfect Storm for User Experience2011/11/09 Siri, Google, and the Future of Mobile2011/09/28 Future Friendly: My Take, a Critique, and a Criticism2011/09/23 Pushing the Restart Button on Mobile Development2011/09/22 Facebook’s Overlooked UX Upgrade2011/09/12 Defining the Literacy of Connectedness2011/08/19 Autosuggest: A Basic Expectation for Search?2011/08/16 The Story Behind GoSoapBox2011/07/14 Context and the Future of Mobile (SLIDES)2011/07/05 Design, Science, and Mad Men2011/06/23 Why Do Small Startups Have CEOs and CTOs?2011/06/02 Building a Weather App for the iPad2011/05/31 It is Time to Reshape Higher Education2011/04/20 Rapid Prototyping and Shipping Incomplete2011/04/07 Experiments are the Future of Usability Research2011/03/02 Life on Crutches2011/02/20 Distractions, the Office, and Working From Home2011/01/26 Clearing Up the State of Mobile in Higher Ed2011/01/21 Ordering Links in a Navigation Menu2010/12/09 A Strange “I Agree” Field List2010/11/13 Traffic Lights: Accessibility and Usability2010/10/22 Let’s Get Responsive2010/10/19 Future of Web Bookmarking: Delicious and Instapaper2010/09/29 October 2010: Best in College Homepage Design2010/09/26 Too-many-apps-itis2010/09/17 Signal Versus Noise on Twitter2010/08/30 On the Design of Sinks and Faucets2010/08/21 Don’t Lock Content Away in PDFs2010/08/18 One Web Versus Mobile Web2010/08/05 Accelerating from Zero to Vision2010/08/02 Mobile in Higher Ed: We Can Do Better2010/08/01 Things I’ve Read: July 20102010/07/26 Feedback is Essential to Improving Experience2010/07/15 Saying Goodbye to My iPhone2010/07/12 Designing for Delight2010/07/08 Business UX: Make Life Better for Callers2010/07/01 Using Google Analytics? Where’s Your Privacy Policy?2010/06/28 Learning the Rework Philosophy2010/06/22 Better UX with Faceted Navigation2010/06/21 Make Your Blog Friendly for Printers2010/06/20 Design for Yourself2010/06/19 Why Every Business Needs a User Experience Researcher2010/06/18 Solving UX problems through innovation (not iteration)2010/06/17 The principles of Gary Vaynerchuk’s ‘Thank You Economy’2010/06/16 (Some) Evidence against 5-point response scales2010/06/15 Ranking CIC schools by web traffic (June 2010)2010/06/14 Why month-by-month archives are a waste of space2010/06/11 Solved: Rory Sutherland’s fourth quadrant2010/06/09 Mobile connectivity: a force of change that sneaks up on us2010/06/08 How I learned to love web accessibility2010/06/04 Young adults care about their online reputation2010/05/29 How 12 HTML characters would make IMDb easier to use2010/05/26 Site traffic versus Google search rank2010/05/24 Network effects: The simple explanation2010/05/20 How Facebook rapidly diffuses innovations2010/05/14 6 ways to annoy and lose Twitter followers2010/05/14 May 2010: Best in college homepage design2010/05/13 Social networking sites and job hunting2010/05/11 48% of college homepages have social media callouts2010/05/10 3 simple rules for hiring a social media consultant2010/05/04 Toward a Folksonomy for Color2010/04/30 Students are NOT Addicted to Social Media2010/04/29 Why Lightweight Design Will Win2010/04/22 The short-term future of social media2010/04/21 My Ignite Lansing preso (video)2010/04/21 Spotted: Jargon on Petco.com2010/04/11 Fraudulent charges from JHD Productions2010/04/09 Google feature request: Day of the week2010/03/25 IBM’s Beehive2010/03/18 Adblock-free for 3 months2010/03/17 What I have been watching lately2010/03/16 Social tagging not so social2010/03/15 Mobile website analytics2010/03/12 Survivorship bias2010/03/09 Too much data2010/03/08 Chatroulette and chance2010/03/04 Be transparent when raising prices2010/03/03 One rule before I tweet2010/02/28 Change your perspective2010/02/25 Dave’s rules for better meetings2010/02/18 Follow people you don’t agree with2010/02/17 When Michigan State became Sparty2010/02/16 Design width in higher ed2010/02/07 Super Bowl ad pundits2010/02/05 Crowd-powered awards suck2010/01/30 Twitter pet peeve: Air-time television tweets2010/01/28 Let information come to you2010/01/25 Interns and social media2010/01/14 When the average lies2010/01/13 The coming commoditization of good web design2010/01/09 Design epistemology2010/01/09 Followup thoughts on what we know2010/01/09 What do we really know about design?2010/01/07 Is Gary Vaynerchuk’s success a function of chance?2010/01/04 Pet peeve: Clumped tweets2009/12/30 When statistics lack meaning2009/12/30 How I changed in 20092009/12/28 Article titles: upper case versus lower case2009/12/27 How to make brain facts stickier2009/12/26 Book review: Fooled By Randomness2009/12/15 Two social space innovations needed in 20102009/12/10 Improving your iPhone favorite contacts page2009/12/04 The most popular first name among Reddit users2009/12/04 Reviewing Twitter’s new mobile version2009/11/21 Another example of possible Twitter follower fraud2009/11/18 Social confirmation and Twitter follow fraud2009/11/16 Poor usability on display: Moleskine.com2009/11/03 A better Threadless gifting option: Let them choose a tee2009/11/01 Automated eye tracking heat maps don’t really work2009/10/09 Speaking navigation: Intuitive and effective2009/10/07 User-centered design is just a methodology2009/10/06 Best CIC homepages for prospective students2009/10/05 Why don’t we see more emphasized search boxes?2009/10/04 MIT.edu: creative community engagement2009/10/02 Higher education websites are mostly crap2009/06/13 Great video: New York City in miniature2009/01/08 Scalable careers: Where we are headed2008/12/05 Telecommunication merger attempts: DirecTV/Dish Network and XM/Sirius2008/09/20 Call your local office of science2004/04/21 Remembering Alexis de Tocqueville