January 2011
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An Elephant Crackup? →
One of the more interesting articles I’ve read in quite some time. Elephants are a very interesting animal.
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What people living with disability can teach us →
“US has more people with disabilities than users of IE6. For whom do we design?”
MOMENT →
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WatchWagon Ride
It was a beautiful day, I had to come home early from work so Heather could go to her doctors appointment. So I decided to take the kids for a little wagon ride. This is Connor’s first time riding in a wagon.
Enjoy™
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WatchWoof, Woof!
This is us going on a little walk, and he had just finished hearing a dog bark, and started to bark at him. So I tried capturing it on camera. Of course he decides to stop once the camera is rolling. I managed to convince him to “woof” a few times though.
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The User Experience of Life
In 2008, Christof van Nimwegen published a paper called The paradox of the guided user: assistance can be counter-effective. The paper documents a study on user interfaces and pits two groups of interfaces against each other in order to see how their users perform.
Although I completely understand how the study can be applied as a learning tool on how to better develop user interfaces, I...
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Hannah's Song
Every night when I put Hannah to bed I either read her a story or tell her a ghost story then I sing her a song. Tonight after I sang a song and kissed her goodnight I started my slow and careful journey through the darkness of a wasteland of toys when she said, “Well I have a song that I really want to sing for you.”
So I stopped… Turned and said, “Alright, well sing it...
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How do babies get into Mommy's tummy?
On Sunday while Heather was taking a nap Hannah (5 years old) and I were standing in the kitchen. I was warming up some pizza for lunch and Hannah did something, but I can’t remember what. It was something that my response was, “I used to do that when I was little like you.” Then she said, “Was that back when I was in Mommy’s tummy before you were here?” To which I chuckled and said,...
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Digital Campaigns Syllabus →
60+ Free High Quality Vintage Textures →
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WatchSimplify
I love how this guy has simplified his life, seems like people generally want bigger, faster, better. We are constantly on the pursuit for happiness, only we are looking in the wrong places. The real answer lies in simplicity. He may be taking it to the extremes, and I’m not sure we all need to live in this size of a house, I mean remember that this guy lives alone, and many of us...