Shouting hippo pillow shams from http://katherinejlee.com
I don’t like to work. I only like working when I’m working.
Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities: GQ
One day, those letters will be on the marquee.
Walkway framed by tombstones.
It took a long time, and I’m still working on it, but I’ve got a draft of my thesis up. Also, this is the draft that I will be graded on. Katherine made the police graphic for my poster, and I think it looks quite handsome here, as well.
The truly distressing part is how upsetting the wrong pattern can be. —xkcd: Computer Problems
Court Says Bush Illegally Wiretapped Two Americans | Threat Level | Wired.com
Boom. Judge Walker calls it like it is. Illegal wiretapping of at least two Americans in 2004.
Dropbox for ease of mind
I use a lot of sync service (SugarSync, Backblaze, Dropbox, MobileMe, Spanning Sync, and a few others). Of these, Dropbox requires the least mental maintenance. It’s closest neighbors in my pantheon of sync services are SugarSync and Mobile Me’s I Drive are the closest equivalents. All three allow you to keep files synchronized across multiple computers, as well as access them on the web.
While they all have strengths, Dropbox’s approach, keeping a single directory in sync, with some simple sharing and photo album options on top, is dead simple. The client runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, which is a boon for any cross-platform users, and if you run multiple clients (say, a desktop and a laptop) on the same local network, files sync directly from machine to machine, which is much faster than one syncing up to the cloud and the other pulling down from there.
Anyway. Just a few thoughts on file syncing. And Dropbox increased their referral bonuses recently, so if you sign up using this link, Get Dropbox, we’ll both get an extra 250 MB of storage.
Just finished Katherine’s new site: http://www.katherinejlee.com
Tools:
- Bonsai - for the site generation
- Nivo Slider - for the slideshows
- Textmate - for…text
- Acorn + Lightroom + Nikon D80 - for images (all photos mine, found on flickr)
- Wufoo - for dynamic content (order form, contact form)
- Google Analytics - for site analytics
- jQuery - for all js effects and making life easier
- And of course, Katherine and her etsy store
52 Weeks of UX: Why UX is really Marketing
If you ask any User Experience Professional what the principles of their profession are, one of the first principles you’ll hear is “Know Your Users”. This makes sense: if we are to create great experiences for users then we must know something about them. You’ll also find this phrase if you…
The phrase “know your users” certainly does apply equally to marketers and UX professionals. However, what you do with that knowledge distinguishes the two professions. Note to marketers: “know your users” isn’t the same as “know your enemy”. Good UX means designing a product to meet user needs. Good marketing means describing a product as meeting user needs.
Note: Good marketing is really hard. I couldn’t do it.
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