Time to read: < 1 minuteI’m cheating a little. Someone asked me to sketch out some ideas for a mall application. And these are some of the sketches i’ve been working on. […] continue reading »
Sketchbook mondays (because it’s been a while…)
can languages help you think and design better?
Time to read: 4 minutesToday is UNESCO International Mother Language Day. This year, we celebrate Turkish. My mother language is Greek, and oddly my mother and grandmother both spoke turkish as well. We’re not your typical Greeks. Consider most Europeans, for instance. As a vast majority, most of us are born and raised in a single country. Our education […] continue reading »
one #UX way to accelerate @Citrix login: progressive prompts
Time to read: 2 minutesI’ve been working somewhere (LinkedIn will know) where they use Citrix and virtual machines on a daily basis, as a replacement for real local desktops. This is a brilliant idea, allowing impeccable employee mobility, swapping around of laptops and desktops, and “work from home” capabilities. But… My personal issue comes from the fact that every […] continue reading »
first 4 things I do on a temporary work mac
Time to read: 3 minuteseasy-lock my screen I am not an expert mac user. I am, however, a pretty damn good windows user, having even administered large user networks in the past. So when I step away from a windows machine, I always press (Windows + L), which locks the computer. Try it. It’s excellent. [WARNING] A friend of […] continue reading »
going off-topic in a blog post doesn’t have to be a problem. A (short) evernote story.
Time to read: 2 minutesContracting is a busy life choice. Since I started, I have had significantly less time to write on my blog, and it makes me very sad. So whenever I have some quiet time when I am not drained, or when I’ve had an idea, I try to immediately write something that I could turn into […] continue reading »
what the arrow inside your textbox means (on a 3×3 grid)
Time to read: 2 minutesI was drawing up a UI (surprised?), and somehow started thinking about where I should put the little arrow in my box of text. That caused me to pause, and think. UX Architects overthink… and then blog about it, it’s terrible. But maybe it will be useful some day. So I concluded that the little […] continue reading »
in praise of mindmaps, for parties, requirements, and xmas
Time to read: 4 minutesWhen was the last time you were thinking (and thinking, and thinking) about a project that needed doing, and you had several ideas, things to progress, things to read up on, people to talk to about certain topics, and functions you wanted your system to perform… except… there was no rhyme or reason to how […] continue reading »
did you know Bavarians were good at UX?
Time to read: 3 minutesDiscovering UX delights in Bavaria. Specifically, Salzburg and Munich. […] continue reading »
how I learnt to stop worrying and love talking to strangers
Time to read: 3 minutesToday I attended a conference run by Digital Doughnut. I knew they did digital, I knew they were related to marketing, and I did meet people who worked in the field. But what blew my mind was the stories, backgrounds and odd serendipities (is that a word?) that brought them to marketing in the first […] continue reading »
7 with 7, and other instagram statistics
Time to read: 2 minutesI’ve been so terrible at writing blog posts, and I love taking photos. I’m still doing my one photo a day project, and I thought a small retrospective on that topic could be interesting. This is all happening on instagram. (the photos in the header of this page? They’re from my instagram feed!) What do […] continue reading »