Tag: communication
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Almost Everything I learned about Teamwork and Leadership, I Learned in Clan Lord
I’ve been threatening to write this post for about a year. I had this sitting on the back-burner for a month and asked for comments from another player also in the IT Admin field. So, without further ado… For the unwashed, Clan Lord is an archaic, sorely out-of-date Multi-player Online Role-playing Game (MORPG) that has been…
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Graphic Design Language Consistency
While I have often said that a lot of UI changes are simply eye candy, and add nothing important other than “bling” to a design, not all UI changes fall into that category. However, looking back, I noticed my posts have beat around this huge unaddressed important distinction of UI design that pretty much no…
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Stream Of Thought: The Right Tool for the Job
This post was written in 2 hours, and is very “stream/speed of thought” (read “rough”), but I wanted to share it enjoy… When I meet other WebDevs, one of the questions I am often asked, after showing them a web project, “What Frameworks/CMS do you use for the backend?” When I say, “None.” Every time…
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20120131 Status Update. AKA: “All Work and No Play Makes M a Tired Boy.”
I have been silent since about the beginning of the year thanks to an old project that is restarting and being revamped (and hopefully finished). So, the focus the next month will be doing that. I’ve intensified my efforts at learning more AJAX and refining both my PHP and MySQL abilities. As I continue to…
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Technology Failures or “Hammering with a Screwdriver”
The guiding principle of technology is, technology is supposed to make our lives better by alleviating the drudgery from our lives and letting us have more time doing what we enjoy. But there is a dark side to technology, and I am not talking about surveillance this time. This dark side is perpetrated by people…
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How to write a product review to help people decide if they want it.
I have a bit of time so I’ll post an observation. I’ve been reading reviews for various apps and items in various places. And the most helpful and informative reviews look at both the positives of an item and the negatives. The open discussion of what you like about something and what you do not…
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Communication is Key: Part 1
Over the course of the next few weeks or months, I will be rolling out articles about the use of Computers, Interface Design, How People Function, And Setting Product Goals During Design. However, I am not going to use the standard perspective of someone that knows so much about technology that they forget what the…