Shared Visions and Sticky Notes
When we started redesigning cloudfour.com, I knew I wanted the entire team to feel a sense of ownership in the end result. To establish an inclusive design direction without…
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The Power of Responsive Design Sprints
In 2008, I sat gobsmacked in Web 2.0 Expo session. The topic of M. Jackson Wilkinson‘s presentation was “Design and User Experience in the Agile Process“, and I literally couldn’t imagine designing that…
Project Management is BS: an inspirational meditation for modern PMs
This past week, I had the luxury of attending the Digital Project Management conference in Austin. If you are a project manager and you haven’t heard about this group of awesome digital PMs, you…
Beyond “Hello, World” with Gulp
(This post is for: web developers who have used, or thought about using, a build tool before, are JS-comfy and maybe have noodled around in node.js but wouldn’t, say, feel up to submitting a talk…
Own Your Process: Ending Agile Guilt
What process do you use for your projects? Agile? Waterfall? Scrum? Extreme? A little bit of everything? Join the club. I had the pleasure of spending some time Saturday with a number of talented colleagues…
Retooling
GitHub introduced a new text editor called Atom last week, and reactions (at least in my Twitter feed) seem divided between fervent desire and snide disregard. For every few people shamelessly begging for invites,…
Content Everywhere by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Earlier this year Sara Wachter-Boettcher asked me to do a technical review of her upcoming book Content Everywhere. It was a tremendous honor. I’m pleased to see the book hits the shelves tomorrow.