User Experience
WWWs & EBIs: Keeping A Balanced Perspective Question: Have you found it harder to keep a more balanced perspective of the WWWs* and EBIs** during these times? *WWW = What’s Working Well or What Worked Well. Aka things adding value/helping. **EBI = Even Better If. Aka things that need improving.
Big Tech
Bringing Recent News Closer to Home: As active users of the products and platforms Big Tech aka GAFAM offers our team and clients, it’ll be interesting to watch how the conversation continues regarding the “break-up of big tech”. No doubt it’s a challenge for regulators to keep up
Downtime
Fastly’s recent downtime incident, insights from Apple’s WWWDC, the investment $ going into headless CMS, and more… Bringing Recent News Closer to Home June 8 2021: “Websites across the internet were temporarily unavailable on Tuesday, including the New York Times, Bloomberg News, Reddit Inc., and the U.K. government,
UX
UX/UI design decisions that guide users WHAT TO DO vs. what not to do + avoiding the creation of unpleasant user experiences. I saw a door. With a door knocker. And a door bell. And a sign (on the door, underneath the door knocker) that read… “Please use the knocker!
Productivity
On Saturday November 9th I had the lovely opportunity to talk to/with (?) the attendees at Ada’s List 2019 Conference in London. The following are some of the slides that I “burned through” in 15 minutes so that we could spend the remaining 15 minutes in Q&A.
Communication
A version of this article/presentation was first presented at DeveloperWeek NYC 2019 (June) & then Ada’s List London 2019 (November). To see the Ada’s List presentation, click here. In tech— where numbers, statistics, machines, devices and automation rules — it’s easy to loose sight of the fact
Productivity
By 2020 (the Fourth Industrial Revolution) the skill of creativity is predicted to jump from #10 to #3 in the list of “Top 10 Skills” needed in the workplace. (See below.) To create the mind space you need to be more creative, what can you do, today? Wait, Wait…Please
Networking
Please join us for a Fireside Chat with Shahriar Rafimayeri, SVP of Business Innovation and CIO at Infor, on Thursday, January 25th, from 6–8 pm EST. When is it? Thursday, January 25th. 6–8 PM EST. Where is it? Infor’s offices, at 641 6th Ave, New York. Please
Brainstorming
When you need to find a solution, you usually need to get there fast. But working quickly can be counterproductive when you need to be creative, and you may actually get from A to B faster if you give yourself TIME to brainstorm. We often don’t recognize that the
Meditation
(This post is based on an email shared with my team at Axioned.) I sent you all a create podcast re: Mo Gawdat over the weekend. See email: “Listen to “Mo Gawdat tells us about his scientific and engineering approach to happiness on Stitcher”. Do take the time to listen