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16 Feb 2008 0950H

The end of cart?

Rehashing an old post from last year, but, now, everywhere it can be seen that the walls that form that decade-old convention of shopping cart as a label are crumbling down. Bag, basket — “my gear” even, on one site — it does not really seem to matter to people, so long as there is [...]

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10 Feb 2008 1906H

E-commerce shopping experiences

This last week at work, towards the end at least, I had the opportunity to take a look at how various teams are handling various aspects of the online shopping experience and was somewhat surprised — I don’t know why, since I look at this stuff pretty much everyday — to find how much has [...]

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11 Oct 2007 0746H

On personas, part 2

Last time we talked about personas and why we use them. This time we’ll talk about what ought to go into a persona.
It’s commonly believed that the persona is little more than a made-up name, a picture of the person, and a little story that goes into the context surrounding usage of something, but I’ve [...]

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13 Sep 2007 0943H

The web, in 4 minutes and change

Slightly distracted by the Fiddy v. Kanye battle for world domination, but, while I’m scribbling out notes and learnings from this round of persona generation and refinement, check out this very cool video.

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21 Aug 2007 1121H

Guilt tripped into posting

Here’s a talk from Spool on Designing for Brand.

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14 Aug 2007 2357H

Virtual closet in destination cities saves time, effort?

Heard about FlyLite, the virtual closet company, on NPR’s MarketPlace yesterday. Is it worth the money? Well, I do travel enough weekly that I could spend the money, $100 a trip, on stashing my clothes in some place in advance, except I don’t consult in Boston, Philly, DC, or New York, because my time could [...]

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28 Jul 2007 0726H

Monocle

I’ve just twigged to this newish magazine, Monocle, through a series of videos on city design at the International Herald Tribune, one of my favorite designed readings on the net.
Look at this gorgeous modernism that does not use sans serif type for its headers. It’s simply beautiful. I can even forgive the black background [...]

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12 Jul 2007 0911H

The users’ anthem?

Carbon dating myself here, but I propose it is the 1982 hit, “Destination Unknown,” by Missing Persons. (”At #17. I’m Casey Kasem.”)
Life is so strange
When you don’t know
How can you tell
Where you’re going to?
You can’t be sure of any situation
Something could change
And then you won’t know
Where do we go from here?
It seems so all [...]

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28 Jun 2007 2248H

The Armano Effect

As we close out June, check out this graph of subscribers over time. The red line indicates the day David Armano blogged me on Logic + Emotion. The decline? Well, likely due to me blogging about every other thing but work, really.

Thanks for the traffic, David. It’s nice to be validated.

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12 Jun 2007 1024H

We’re hiring. A lot, in fact.

Shameless plug for the company.
If you are a user experience professional or information architect in or around Boston, Cleveland, and Chicagoland and are looking for a great place to work, I’d recommend you link up with us at Brulant. Here’s a job description for the UX and IA roles. It’s a fast moving firm [...]

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