Most of the gang at Bolt | Peters went to BayCHI tonight, and I was really impressed by a presentation from Yahoo about BOSS (Build your Own Search Service).
Turns out that, once you get beat badly by Google, you start to get really open. Nice.

Basically BOSS (bad name, great tool) means that, with [...]

I was never super into Alan Cooper (of Inmates are Running the Asylum fame) until I read this hilarious argument with Kent Beck, the godfather of Agile programming. (pssst. don’t click on that flaky wayback machine link. I’ve republished the article here, probably completely illegally, for your convenience. But it’s pretty depressing that this doesn’t [...]

Just a quick open invitation, if you are in San Francisco this weekend:
UPDATE: Changed the time to 4pm.
I’m meeting with designer-researchers Niti Bahn and Dave Tait on Saturday, April 19th, at 6pm 4pm at Atlas Cafe in San Francisco (in the Mission). Come have a beer with us! We’re talking generally about designing [...]

I’m just getting started on a new project nicknamed Kestrel.
The basic idea a simple and user-centered web app that helps facilitate ordering, billing and member management for CSA’s. Things are JUST getting started and I am soliciting help in doing some feasibility research as well as a basic evaluation of existing CSA management applications. [...]

There has been a lot of excitement recently around a couple of developments in touch screen interfaces: First there was the insane presentation at TED 2006. Secondly, of course, the iPhone made everyone all hot in the pants for it’s touchable goodness.
In Malawi, the NGO Baobab Health Partnership … adapted Linux to $100 [...]

I make websites, and I manage a few web servers. Making sure that pages load quickly is a pretty fundamental part of my job.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about how much more important this concern is for people who are in low-bandwidth environments (my house in rural NC), and especially in [...]