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The best books on innovation
Whether you're honing your design thinking or hoping to boost innovation, Victor's survey collects a list of books you need.
Lazy Site Map Generator
Jason Pearce has put together a Lazy Site Map Generator that takes a site architecture in Excel, converts it into a Visio-friendly format, and then creates your sitemap in Visio. I haven’t tried it, but it looks very useful.
Web standards didn't kill HTML
The web standards goal was that then the web would be a better more accessible, easier to create, and easier to maintain.
Assessing your team's UX skills
Jared Spool writes a brilliant article over at UIE: "Assessing your team's UX skills".
There and back again (a return to Houston)
The last three weeks have been beyond crazy and bizarre. I've moved back to Houston and am slowly settling in and adjusting to the change.
The International Conference on Managing Design in Global Environments call for papers
The International Conference on Managing Design in Global Environments is now seeking submissions that discuss the globalization of design and design management.
Changing the Channel (interview with Livia Labate and Austin Govella)
Christina Wodtke interviewed myself and Livia Labate about how information architects can better interface with the business. The interview is up at Boxes and Arrows.
How to not boil lobsters: strategy keeps projects on track
If your team knows what your strategy is, then they know where you're going, and your less likely to end up somewhere else.
Products as duck-billed platypi
Wherein the author bitches, whines, and whinges about personal information management an GTD for several hundred words.
Designing with patterns: Lessons from Yahoo! and Comcast
Come hear Christian Crumlish and I share what we’ve learned, what works, and what we will never ever do again at Comcast and Yahoo!
“...quite delighted by small gorillas...”
Shouldn't everyone notice your wonderful design? The better question is shouldn't your design leave everyone better off?
A new design
Just launched a new design. I'm proud. Not because it's the greatest design ever, but because it really matches who I am with what I need.
We tried to warn you: how organizations are architected to fail
Peter Jones explores how, as designers, we have a responsibility to detect and assess the potential for large-scale failure.
Unique visitors is a dumb metric
Dumb, aggregate metrics like unique visitors and total page visits give no real insight into your site's success. You need behavior-based metrics.
72 questions to ask on your first day
Starting in a new position, it's important to understand the cultural ins and outs, biases and beliefs of your new organization.
Agile + User Experience = Parallel work streams
In an agile process with a rolling series of sprints, UX requires two, parallel work streams, clear expectations, and constant status reports.
Agile + UX = idealized vs. current state
Agile's focus on small iteration needs a team that can build the now, remember the future, and recognize the gap between the two.
Practical prototyping: 2008 IA Summit Panel
Sunday April 13th, I'm moderating a Practical Prototyping panel featuring Chris Conley, Anders Ramsey, Todd Zaki Warfel, and Jed Wood.