Some things I'm thinking about.
Blog / May 28, 2015
Economic theory actually has a lot to do with design. At its core, economics is the study of how people associate a value with goods and services. As designers and developers, we want to be able to deliver the most valuable product to our users and provide a worthwhile experience. Understanding the rationale behind how value is formulated helps us better manage user experience and expectations.
Blog / May 27, 2015
Fitt's law has been used in industrial engineering for decades, but we have not seen it openly discussed in web design. As a fairly mature predictive model, its principles can grant insight on interaction design.
Blog / May 09, 2015
Web apps, single-page webpages that mimic the feel of native applications, are ever more popular in today's web ecosystem. The realization of universal access involves migrating applications and features formally only found in native programs to the open web.
Blog Conference / April 24, 2015
Closing RailsConf 2015 was the brilliant and marvelously entertaining Kent Beck. His keynote was more of a lessons learned session discussing the challenges he has encountered through his career and sharing his insight with the crowd.
Blog Ember Rails / April 23, 2015
I was able to catch a session with Jonathan Jackson of Hashrocket, co-author of EmberCLI Rails gem and founder of the Ember Weekend podcast, and get an idea of how he sees Ember progressing in the future.
Blog Leadership / April 07, 2015
After reading Good to Great by Jim Collins, I was struck by the notion that successful businesses are successful because they identify a singular area where they can be the best in the world and pursue that are rigorously.