UI enhancements

  • Back to Usability Basics

    I recently was sent a link about a Q&A session on Usability by Jared Spool. There was a time where I had time to surf the internet to keep up to date on usability information in the community, but lately I’ve been so busy working on a project that reading this article  really reminded me that I need to

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  • The Upside to Economic Down-Turn

    This past few weeks I have observed something that has been nothing short of amazing. I have been working on a project for over a year now. The product is part of a line of products that are being produced at multiple sites. In the past few weeks I have witnessed a previously sense  of

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  • Enough of the distractions, back to UX!

    I just finished watching a very good webinar by Forrester entitled  ‘The Current State of the Customer Experience’ by Bruce Temkin. You can view his information rich blog entitled Customer Experience Matters. I think that in light of the recent events that I’ve been working in depth on an application, and recently had my laptop

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  • What is this world coming to?

    Yesterday I got quite a surprise. As I arrived at work, I went to remove my laptop computer out of the trunk of my car, and lo-and-behold it was not there! Someone stole my laptop out of the locked trunk of my car during the night. I was stunned and shocked. This became an emotional

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  • BarCamp Miami 2009

    Yesterday I attended my first tech event in over 3 months. BarCamp Miami. What is BarCamp you ask? No, it’s not a school for learning how to become a bartender. According to Wikipedia — BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first

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  • Tips for Healthy Lifestyle Changes in the New Year

    In September of this year I was informed by a health care professional that I had high blood pressure. To me this was a sure sign that I needed to make some changes in my life. The first of which was to lose weight. I wasn’t crazy about the idea of going on a fad

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