Category Archives: User experience design
Do you make happiness, dreams, or just kick ass? – SXSW Themes
THEME 2: Help people kick ass so they can reach their dreams. That’s how you create happiness. Make that your business and your life. Happiness The products and services we build have a wide array of goals. We think of … Continue reading
Interconnectedness and Cooperation Overlaid Onto Real Life – SXSW Themes
After transcribing my 15 pages of handwritten notes and starting to think through some of it, I’ll be posting a few big takeaways and themes I pulled from South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) this year. Here’s the first: THEME 1: … Continue reading
Navigation for complex dashboards
I found a really nicely implemented Find function on Bluehost’s pretty complex hosting dashboard. It combines the lookup capabilities of a program like Quicksilver or Spotlight, but uses the actual dashboard interface to show the filtered search results. Live example: … Continue reading
Left Godaddy for Bluehost, never happier!
I finally got so sick of how slowly my pages were loading when hosted on Godaddy I made the switch to a new hosting company. I went with Bluehost because 1) it was listed on the wordpress.org suggested web hosts, … Continue reading
Digital Camera Shopping and Comparison Widgets
After about 7 years with my trusty Sony Cybershot I decided it was time to retire it for something new and also get my Mom to make the jump from film to digital, too. The biggest annoyance with my old … Continue reading
Back from SXSW, favorite quotes
I’m back from SXSW Interactive today and am feeling quite delusional from the lack of sleep and 5 days of hearing great ideas and meeting amazing people. I think the best part of the conference was just being around such … Continue reading
Planning your visit to SXSW
This Friday will be my first time at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW). I’ve been to a couple other conferences but this is by far the largest. It looks like it’s going to be a blast in Austin. … Continue reading
3D Patient Records for Dentistry paper published in JADA!
After about a year of waiting, my senior project exploring 3D Patient Records for Dentistry has been published as the cover story in the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA)! I had no idea our work would end up … Continue reading
Microsoft HealthVault and its third party user experience
Microsoft is shaking up the consumer health technology landscape today with their launch of HealthVault. The site allows anyone to sign up and store and share all of your health information and the health information of your family (even pets). … Continue reading
I got on TV!
Some of the pages and tools I designed at Revolution Health got on to TV! See below for the video. NBC news in New York, I believe, was talking about online health sites they like. The two sites reviewed were … Continue reading
GotVoice?
Have you ever had an awesome voicemail you’ve wanted to download? Or maybe you just wished you could keep better track of your messages from multiple phones all in one place. Well, those were both me and I found an … Continue reading
Scrybe: New online/offline office tools
Saw a new startup called Scrybe who will has a new online office suite offering in beta. It looks like quite a web application with new innovative ways to manage scheduling and collaboration tasks. They’ve released a video on their … Continue reading