Ghostweather R&D Blog

Scott Berkun wrote a good post on Why Big Companies Suck , at popular request on his site. It made me think about my own experiences at smal...

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 ...

Two recent reports of women in tech careers that are not encouraging. First a link to a NY Times article, " What Has Driven Women Out o...

I've seen this on a number of sites now, but it's rich enough to keep passing on. Requiring payment from HBR, the article is How Pi...

More on creating good user experience from good organizations: a short blog post by Adam Richardson at CNET entitled " Good user experi...

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

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...

An interesting, free article from Harvard Business School working papers: Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architect...

The results from the 2007 Usability Professionals Assoc. salary survey are now available to UPA members. I am one, so I'm posting some ...

Steve at tingilinde sent me a link to David Pogue's NYT piece on design flaws in digital picture frames . From the intro section: ...

SolidWorks World , the annual user convention for SolidWorks CAD users, is going on now in San Diego. I'm consulting with the company, ...

Kicking this one off, here's a good article by Joel Spolsky about the design of the product home page for FogBugz , which nicely spotlig...

It's been a tough week - minor road accidents in snow, encounters with consultants that earn $2500 for a few hours of phone time [I don...

There was a good cross-company discussion of organizational models for User Experience (UX) teams at Boston CHI on Sept 11 (check that lin...