July 2003

To the list of illustrious jobs I’m honored to have been offered I can now add ordination to be a minister. I have a friend who’s a civil celebrant and needs help with a wedding he can’t perform for scheduling reasons. Too bad I’ll be out of town that weekend :)

Just installed my own little wiki. Not sure why I hadn’t done that earlier, it’s so simple and easy. I’ll use it to keep notes at work, where capturing and linking them quickly is more important that pretty presentation or sophisticated organization. It’s always a struggle not to resort to paper which traps ideas in…

If you had to create an introduction to IA in a booklet small enough fit in your wallet, what would you say? Maybe: user-centered, looks beyond the party purchasing the design to the end user includes research and usability testing (which is not an attempt to trump these disciplines, just explaining IA to the completely…

Interesting that summarizing emails was part of the original design of the UseMod wiki.

If you’re wondering why I’ve been so quiet it’s because I’m mind melding with Mike Lee.

Behr.com has some great Flash-based color selection tools. Intended for choosing paints, they could be used to choose any kind of color palette.