Entries from March 2010

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

A tale of two customer support experiences

I’ve been putting together a mac mini-based home theater PC. I was going to post on it when I got it finished, but instead I have a different story. Putting it together, I bought a few components and two different ones failed within two weeks (two weeks of each other and two weeks of opening [...]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Unit Circle Magazine Archive re-launched

In 1993, I decided that I wanted to create a magazine. I don’t remember the exact reasons why. Zine culture was on the rise at the time and I was living in San Francisco, which was one of the epicenters, so it was definitely in the air. The first few issues were xeroxed and distributed [...]

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Interesting UX presentation from Theresa Neil

RIA Screen Layouts View more presentations from Theresa Neil. The deck is a nice, loose, taxonomy of different design styles (some of the examples seem to have multiple styles to me), the examples are really good and actually pointed out some cool sites that I hadn’t heard about. Definitely worth a flip through if you [...]

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Moving to scrum: breakin’ the law

Well, part of the whole idea is that scrum isn’t a hard-and-fast set of rules right? I had some meetings at another office last week which necessitated moving out our first sprint review and retrospective a couple days. So if one of the guiding principals of scrum (and agile in general) is that the dates [...]