17th
January
2008
“Over the last few days, I’ve taken part in (and facilitated parts of) an intense workshop meant to define the user experience of a new product. In the room we had representatives from pretty much the entire team — software engineers, hardware engineers, industrial designers, interaction designers, marketing, brand, and even the CEO.
At the end of the first day, we found ourselves a little unmoored — even though we had talked about our presumed users (this project is to launch a brand new product into the market, so there are no existing users), the discussion was nebulous. We needed an anchor.
So on the morning of the second day we dove into a discussion of personas…”
posted in Personas/Scenarios | Permalink |
17th
January
2008
“Don’t know really. Started out as something, ended up many other things. I’ve been eating a lot of figs recently. They’re good and ripe right now.”
In other words, this is a Flickr set of scans of someone’s wonderfully odd sketchbook.
posted in Art, Illustration | Permalink |
17th
January
2008
“The gifts and paper goods of Knock Knock tap into the vernacular with their dead-on vintage aesthetic and thoroughly modern wit. Each snarky piece is lovingly concepted and written by founder Jen Bilik, who oversees Knock Knock’s design studio in Venice Beach. Bilik talks with Alissa Walker about answering her creative calling, reality TV and the beauty of overdue correspondence.”
posted in Communications, Graphic design | Permalink |
17th
January
2008
“I’m a photographer. I’m also a web geek. And those two sides of my brain sometimes fight with each other.
As a photographer, I’m outraged when people grab photos off the web and use them without consideration of copyright. I’ve been fighting this “It’s on the internet, so it must be free!” ignorance for more than a decade.
As a web geek, I love the freedom of the web. I love that I can share my work with the whole world, for free. This is the great gift of the internet.
So what to do?”
posted in Copyright/TM, Photography | Permalink |
