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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Theresa's List of Essential Books for User Interface Designers

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Nice list from my co-author and cohort in design. Now I need to get my list together. But over half are on my list as well.
Monday, December 07, 2009

Netflix needs another Javascript Ninja

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Ok, so this role does not report to me but reports into our excellent Customer Service Engineering organization. The engineering effort is f...
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Upcoming Talk at Rich Web Experience

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Speaking tomorrow at the Rich Web Experience in Orlando, Fl. I fly out tonight at midnight. Arrive at 10am, speak at 4pm. I promise to get ...
Monday, November 02, 2009

More Needless Fanfare - Carousel Merry-Go-Round

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Ok, latest offender in animation that goes beyond annoying and creates a sense of wooziness in the user -- Vignette Media . Here is a screen...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Rich Web Experience coming in December

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Excited to be speaking at the Rich Web Experience Dec 1-4 in Orlando, Florida . If you sign up before Nov. 2nd you can save $200. Hope to...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Mental Note Cards - Stephen Anderson

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I mentioned a great talk a while back by Stephen P. Anderson . In that talk Stephen teased us with a project he had started for capturing ...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

I am Hiring! Looking for a Ninja Web UI Engineer - Oct. 7th 2009.

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New opportunity as of today (10/7/2009). UPDATE: All Positions are currently filled! I will add the official job posting later this week. Bu...

Job opportunity at Togetherville for UI Web Dev

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I am an Advisor for the startup Togetherville.com. Togetherville is an early-stage, funded startup that is centered around ways for kids an...
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Slot Machine Tabs (Needless Fanfare)

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Ok, one more in this vein . Please indulge me as I find it humorous what abuses can be foisted on the user.
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Jumping Tabs (Needless Fanfare)

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Another example of the Needless Fanfare anti-pattern. Do we really need tabs leaping up to meet your mouse?
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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Silicon Valley Code Camp Talk - DHTML Prototyping

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For those at the Silicon Valley Code Camp (and anyone else :-) here is the talk from today. I added references that I mentioned to the end ...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

'Designing Social Interfaces' Book Available

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Designing Social Interfaces by Erin Malone & Christian Crumlish is finally hitting the store shelves. It should be available on Amaz...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

Designing for Interesting Moments Talk

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I gave a talk on Designing for Interesting Moments for the IxDA at the Google campus also at Microsoft for the UX team as well as at the Rub...
Wednesday, September 02, 2009

"50 Most Usable RIAs" on InsideRIA.com

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Theresa just posted our article 50 Most Usable RIAs on O'Reilly's InsideRIA blog. The article provides fresh, new examples of the ...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Renting an Idiomatic Experience

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When my wife & I arrived in Seattle recently, we rented a car from Avis. After an exhausting re-route to a different counter than the on...
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My eBay Talk - Doodle Version

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Courtesy of Ahmed Riaz , designer at eBay. Amusing take on my talk :-D
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Cooking, UX, Team Building and Job Opportunities

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Over the last year I have fallen in love with cooking. I think what I enjoy most is taking some simple ingredients and from that creating a ...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Netflix is Hiring Test Engineers

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We are looking for Test Engineers with solid software engineering skills. Interested? Kevin McEntee, VP of Engineering, described to me what...

Theresa's Presentation at DelveUI 2009

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Fluency and Rosenfeld Media sponsored the first DelveUI , A 2 Day Masterclass on Designing User (Web) Interfaces last week at the NYU Poly ...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Netflix Culture

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Meant to post this yesterday when we added Reed Hasting's (CEO of Netflix) slide deck on Netflix Culture to our jobs site . It is 128 sl...
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