Today is Ada Lovelace Day, and my post this year is about someone I’ve had the privilege to work with: Kelly McCarthy. Kelly is a project manager and an information architect. She co-owns Easy! Designs, a boutique web consultancy based in Chattanooga, Tennessee (which also produces Retreats 4 Geeks, an alternative web technology training series [...]
Categories: women+tech
Tagged: #adalovelaceday, ald11, findingada
This blog has been silent for a time while I’ve been moving continents and busy getting settled. In the meantime, I’ve started a Tumblr blog called “Everyone Is Other“, where I am collecting material relating to cultural bias and collective psyche relating to prejudice.
Categories: miscellaneous
This photo was taken a couple of weeks before Christmas; I was standing at a bus-stop across the road from this woman who was dressed in vivid colours, dancing and jingling her bucket in time to a boombox blasting boppy Christmas music at an intersection. I was immensely impressed by her success rate. She would [...]
Categories: communications,design,non-profits,user experience
Tagged: experience design, fundraising
I’d just finished a cartoon for my talk at Paris Web next week. I’ll be speaking about how we can get away from the industrial-revolution-style, deliverable-churning machine mindset that is still plaguing how we create digital products and design user experiences.
Categories: Uncategorized
I spent a good part of today at INIS’ first Project Columbus event on Transmedia Storytelling. To those of us who live and breathe the web, and who have grown up with the cacophony of various media all going at the same time, “transmedia storytelling” seems like a fancy name for an experience that we [...]
Categories: communications,design,user experience