Interpreting today’s digital landscape and how it is transforming the human experience.
Five years ago today I was hired on to a small team of 12 or so developers called EffectiveUI. To get the job I had to learn Flex in a week and pass an interview with a client. I carried the Flex 1.5 book by Adobe around every minute of the day for those two weeks, including taking it on [...]
Last week, an army of people from EffectiveUI were in New York for the 2011 Forrester Customer Experience Forum (#cxp11). This is a great conference for us – we have the opportunity to talk to hundreds of people from some of today’s largest brands about why a focus on the customer is one of the most critical strategies a company [...]
It was a great second day at Flash and the City with so many awesome sessions to chose from. First up was Michael Labriola, who never disappoints, especially when he gets into the underpinnings of the Flash VM. His talk “Player Garbage Collection” was one not to be missed, since garbage collection in Flash is as tenacious as it is. [...]
The Flash and the City conference in New York last weekend was an event to remember. Day 1 went by quickly, but here’s a re-cap of the highlights. In the morning, host Elad Elrom got things started by talking about the conference history, and how it had always aspired to be more than just a little Flash event. This year’s [...]
“Throw away your joysticks, kids. Punching…has evolved from two-dimensional wrist-wringing to 3-D arm-swinging.” Thus began the 1989 article of “Design News” praising that year’s must-have Christmas accessory: the Power Glove. At that time it seemed as if the new age of direct manipulation was upon us, and that video game controllers would soon be an artifact of the past. The [...]
Someone must have thought June was a great time for techies to converge on New York City. We’ll be at three events this month in the Big Apple! First up is the eagerly anticipated Flash and the City (#FATC) conference June 9-12. This four-day event kicks off with a day of workshops, then segues into three days of discussions on [...]
I was recently recommended the article Are your users S.T.U.P.I.D.? from Boxes and Arrows, in which S.T.U.P.I.D. stands for stressed, tired, untrained, passive, independent, and distracted. The article presents an interesting message in which the age-old question of whether or not particular users are intelligent is irrelevant – if you are not supporting the context of an environment full of [...]
