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Of Books and Bookstores

A lifetime and a half ago, every other week, I would drive eight and some hours, from Buffalo NY to Maryland. I was still finishing my graduate work. My then boy-friend (now husband) was working in Maryland. Before the dinner and movie that marked the start of our two days together, we met up at [...]

What is out there

If there were any doubt in my mind that the blog-o-sphere does not represent even the tip of the iceberg of our collective wisdom, those doubts were laid to rest when I recently saw this list of top 35 UX blogs. I decided to look at the contents of the list suspecting that I would [...]

In search of Jeeves.

Somehow, I follow more than 200 people on twitter.  I may need a whom-not-to-follow feature more than a whom-to-follow feature. My current  location on this sinusoidal interest graph not withstanding, this is actually a very interesting problem. How do you connect up people to that which they are receptive to, that which they are looking [...]

Is it time for beautiful fonts?

There is nothing wrong with Arial. But as I look around the web in general, I wonder if the time has come for the beautiful fonts, and the layouts that seem to go with them, to make an appearance in Enterprise Applications. Many of the dynamic, stay on page, UI patterns have already found their [...]

Notes from the ZURB Sketching Workshop

Here were my take-aways from the BAYCHI Tutorial event: ZURB Sketching and Implementation Workshop. Thanks to : @BAYCHI , Bryan Zmijewski , Jeremy Britton and Jonathan Smiley  from @ZURB for a great session. These are five ideas, techniques from the workshop that I hope to apply right-away to work underway. As an exercise in exploring [...]