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Continue reading →: Books can be relationships
I recently read a blog post by Michael Hyatt (@michaelhyatt) titled “Three Reasons Why Authors Must Develop Their Own Platforms.” I completely agree with his thesis – authors have to get way past the idea that “if you write it they will read.” Hyatt offer three reasons why authors need to…
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Continue reading →: Should the government regulate statistics?
I’m only half kidding. According to Mark Twain (or, possibly, the British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli) there are three types of lies: Lies Damned lies, and Statistics I named this blog post “Should the government regulate statistics?” because I was worried I’d have too many posts entitled Lies, Damned Lies, and…
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Continue reading →: Gratitude: Water skiing in the morning
This past summer I was fortunate to meet Darren – a new friend in my neighborhood with a shared passion for water skiing. With most of the buzz/activity/marketing focused on “-board” sports (e.g., snowboard, wakeboard) it was great to find someone motivated to get up early and ski a proper slalom…
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Continue reading →: <CTRL><ALT><DELETE> This blog and its (new) purpose
Life brings with it a number of reboots/restarts. I find this comes with major life changes including: graduating from high school (moving out of your parents’ house) graduating from college (making your own rent payment) job changes epiphanies This blog’s reboot is part of the last one – an epiphany.…
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Continue reading →: Fluid – the Site-Specific Browser (SSB)
This past weekend I rediscovered Fluid. Fluid is a Site-Specific Browser for Mac. It packages up a WebKit browser that is specific to one website (or sites – the list is configurable). I spent up and purchased a proper license. This unlocks the following (very useful) features: Create Fluid Apps…
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Continue reading →: What we want in an airline lounge
Dear Airline CEO(s): I also realize times are tough and that you have to charge for many service components a la carte; things that your customers formerly assumed were “part of the deal.” One of the appropriate a la carte items are your airline lounges. Frequent travelers are willing to…
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Continue reading →: We need strong leadership for our schools
Yesterday I read, in disbelief, a story in the LA Times, “Teacher removed for ‘dangerous’ science projects; supporters rally .” Greg Schiller, a teacher at the Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, in Los Angeles was recently suspended “after two students turned in science projects that were designed to shoot small…
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Continue reading →: How can I schedule user testing?
Good news – short post. 🙂 We are about to conduct our second round of usability testing on Reacht. We’re already feeling some pain associated with scheduling participants. For our first usability test we invited people to “just show up between 5p and 730p.” Mistake. Regrettably, we ended up asking…
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Continue reading →: Perception is reality
Last week we conducted a substantial usability test evolution for Reacht. We were seeking truth about several things: problem-solution fit perception of the unique selling proposition (USP) application discoverability usability colors, branding, style We got the truth 🙂 Some of it was a pleasure to receive, some not :). All…
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Continue reading →: Reacht usability testing: THANKS!!!
This week was “alpha week” (aka, get it out week, live user testing week) for our Reacht (@reachtapp) application. We’ve been in testing mode with real users for a while but this week we invited a larger group to experience and comment on the idea, branding, style guide, application, messaging, functionality,…
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