Jeff Watkins 3 Market Sq Apt #3 Newburyport, MA 01950 jeff@newburyportion.com 508-423-4816
For the last ten years, I’ve designed and developed cutting-edge user interfaces and proofs-of-concept for the Web and Windows grounded [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Contact
18 Feb 2006 – 11:54 am
I’m always keen to hear from anyone who reads nerd @ newburyportion, which I always suspect is about one or two people. The advantage to having so few readers is that I probably can respond to every email message I receive…
One Word, Sounds Like
17 Feb 2006 – 9:58 pm
Today I was thwarted by a voicemail directory. I called the main phone number for a company with an automated PBX. However, I didn’t know how to spell the last name of the guy I was trying to call.
I’d heard his name several times over the phone, so I knew roughly how it was spelled, [...]
Schrödinger’s Poor Cat
16 Feb 2006 – 6:58 pm
I’ve become a regular reader of Creating Passionate Users and the Kathy Sierra’s latest article Schrödinger’s Product is another excellent instalment.
However, in today’s article Kathy trots out the standard Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment. Now I’ve been blessed with feline companions for 15 years, so I might know a thing or two about cat behaviour. And [...]
Keeping Users In Mind
3 Feb 2006 – 8:50 am
Kathy Sierra has a really great article about designing for users rather than features. (Thanks Josh for linking to the Creating Passionate Users site.)
The closing paragraph really sums it all up:
Most importantly, keep asking yourself, “How can I help my users kick ass?” And to answer that, you’ll have to know the context [...]