I’m a sucker for the larger historical contexts of technology and culture. This book didn’t disappoint. I’m finding these types of books, where the author takes a contemporary idea and does a bunch of research and then writes a book to be less interesting than books with original ideas that are then supported with research. … continue reading
Parametricism, Patrik Schumacher
Designing Meaningful Data Products, Enterprise UX Conference
The talk I gave for the UXPin Enterprise UX virtual conference on February 15, 2017.
I had lots of fun talking about data and design!
100 things to remember
Found this in my notes last night. It’s the list of things that I wanted to remember when I ran Mountain Lakes 100.
Tips I picked up from reading a lot of articles and from reading Jason Koop’s book, Training Essentials for Ultrarunning.… continue reading
Pocket + Read Ruler
I decided to get organized and stop dropping everything (links, notes, images, ideas) into Evernote (my distributed cognition 2nd brain) so I decided to try Pocket.
I don’t like that I’m locked into Pocket and can only share links with friends through a Pocket url.… continue reading
The hook
Good read following Hooked and The World Beyond your Head. Same topics but dialing in on choice architecture and variable rewards.
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
The takeaway is to always consider (when presented with a fixed set of choices, options, menu items) what is not in the list and why.… continue reading
Notes from books
Not that I’ve looked very hard, but I haven’t found a good way to get to the highlights I make in the books I read on the Kindle. In Crawford’s book, I took pictures within a note in Evernote and let Evernote handle the OCR scan. … continue reading