Ghostweather R&D Blog

At the excellent Tapestry Conference in February in Annapolis, Emma Coats ( @lawnrocket ) spoke about storytelling, the theme of the co...

Back to blogging after a long hiatus of work and travel... UI14 in Boston had some good stuff for designers and managers! I heard a lot ab...

The other day I was in a meeting in which evaluation criteria for developers came up; nice concrete stuff, like writing code that other peop...

A response to a number of posts and talks on failure recently, particularly this one by Michael Krigsman, Five Reasons to Discuss Project Fa...

At CHI 2009, I took a lot of notes at the panel "Figuring Out the 'One Thing' That Will Move UX Into a Position of Strategic Im...

Most of us in interaction design jobs have been asked to do a usability test on something that we don't think is ready for prime time. ...

The guest speakers at SolidWorks World 2009 really brought home to me how wonderful a rigorous design process can be - driving the product d...

At my last permanent job, an expert on brainstorming techniques came in to give a talk to the design and development managers. See, we had ...

Today I ran across a whole class of items that are oddly similar, in different places: drawings animated, in not your usual way. First, ...

I shouldn't look a gift digital frame in the interface, but it contributed to a badly spent Labor Day, so I will: the Philips 7FF2M4 . ...

You decided to hire a bunch of interaction designers and "user experience" people to improve your product, service, or general bus...

Playing with Jonathan Feinberg's artistic tag cloud generator Wordle , I plugged myself in (of course) and got this one (this is the ...

Now that the Create the Future Design Contest is open and collecting entries, it's time to point out some of the reasons I love this co...

Having just given a workshop on setting yourself up as a consultant with some warnings about client types, this video is especially apropos...

We all know now that good design is a crucial element in a crowded market. But just because people in your company have strong feelings abo...

Everyone else is doing it, so I'm posting about Twitter too. I admit I've been enjoying it, probably more so since I have less time...

The premier human-computer interaction conference, aka CHI 2008 (pronounced "kai" not "chee") was in Florence, Italy th...

Boston's mini-Usability conference is coming up on May 28 at Bentley. This is a reasonably priced one-day event that attracts quite a ...