Be dismissive of the non-smartphone only if you want to leave 4 billion customers on the table.
Dispatches From The Internets
Nine Lies We Tell Ourselves About Mobile
Beyond Responsive Workshops this May
A lot fo my work lately has been consulting and working with teams to help them to establish or improve upon their responsive strategies.
Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?
Interesting tech job truth:
The combined global workforces of Groupon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga, Yelp, Pandora, and Zillow is smaller than the number that Circuit City fired in January 2009 when it was liquidated.
Adaptive Design, Empathy & Beating Creative Block
Lately I’ve been doing a few more podcasts, local events, and interviews. Here’s a round-up of a few that posted in the last week or so:
The modern.IE Podcast
Josh Holmes interviewed me about adaptive design, progressive enhancement, and a wide range of other things.
Device-Agnostic
Yet another great argument for progressive enhancement.
Paper Dolls
Jon Hicks came to SXSW in 2005 and made quite an impression on many of us. It’s no surprise, he’s an incredibly nice chap.
The Hampton
For a few years in the late aughts, the place to stay during SXSW Interactive was the Hampton Inn at San Jacinto and 2nd. There were 3 main reasons for this: 1) proximity to the Convention Center, 2) free breakfast, and 3) happy hour and a spacious veranda on which to enjoy it.
Hallways
I stopped attending SXSW as a journalist in 2000. I’d gotten pretty burned out running the magazine, so I decided to take a break and focus on my web work. Little did I know, 5 years later I’d be back because a site I built was a finalist in the Interactive Awards.
Continuum
Thank you Jeremy:
The web is not a platform. It’s a continuum.
The experiences we design must follow suit.
Everything I Really Need to Know about User Experience I Learned in Sunday School
Every corner you cut is an opportunity to confuse, irritate, and lose users … lessen[ing] your product’s effectiveness.