Cortana has an API! I can’t wait to start playing with this.
Dispatches From The Internets
Cortana for all: Microsoft’s plan to put voice recognition behind anything
The Walled Gardens Of The Web Are Growing
All of this has happened before: Remember the AOL keyword?
Exploring how customer success creates successful products
A new web series “exploring how customer success creates successful products”. Keeping an eye on this one.
Announcing media capture functionality in Microsoft Edge
getUserMedia() is now in Microsoft Edge!
Practicing Empathy With Teams
I’ve touched on this a bit in my Designing with Empathy presentation: “Empathy is just as important for us to practice as we interact with our team members”. Susan Robertson goes into the topic of empathy building for teams in this great post for A List Apart.
Trainspotting: Firefox 38
Adaptive images & more land in Firefox 38!
Turndown information for PageSpeed Service
This is getting to be a habit: Google is shuttering its PageSpeed service
Slides from my talk at #msEdgeSummit
I just came off stage from my talk at the Microsoft Edge Web Summit and I wanted to share the deck with you. The talk was live-streamed, but I will post a video link as soon as it is up. Update: The video is now online. You can also view it below.
Lessons Learned from Atari
In watching Atari: Game Over, I couldn’t help but see all of the parallels between the early video game industry and the web design industry. The boys’ club… Engineers as rockstars… It’s a tale of a meteoric commercial rise followed by a swift and dismal collapse.
Design Consistency for the Responsive Web
This is a fantastic presentation from Patty Toland (of Filament Group), given at the Smashing Conference in Santa Monica.