Two Ukulele Songs
Cute 4 year old My son Matthew at 4 years old Clearly, 4 years old is your maximum cuteness level.
Month: September 2013
The UX of Losing (and Finding) Your Dog
We have a family dog named Leroy. (Named after the hero from the cult classic “The Last Dragon”) He is a 18 month old black Labrador Retriever with some other breed mixed in; maybe a greyhound? Leroy is obsessed with running after a thrown tennis ball. He can do it for hours and runs ridiculously…
What is Yahoo? (2013)
The design process Marissa Mayer utilized for Yahoo’s new logo was pretty awful, but I don’t really think that is the primary concern. It is this article on Techcrunch, where Marissa defines Yahoo as a personalization company. WTF is a personalization company? To be clear, the job of “fixing Yahoo” is ridiculously hard and Marissa is…
Song Covers
I love song covers. I love when someone can take a familiar song and completely transform it into a new genre. This one made me so happy. I wish more bands would do this. Remember when Johnny Cash covered Hurt by Nine Inch Nails? or Limp Bizkit’s Faith by George Michaels? or Red Hot Chilli…
UX is like Curation for Ideas
All day long, I see ideas and plans. Whether it’s something big that changes the course of the whole company or something small like a new icon. My job, as the head of UX, is to know shit from Shinola and hopefully steer us towards the good stuff. Here is where I first learned the difference:…