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I’m Writing a Book!

In Design Discourse, I've Journal, Man at Work on 16 July 2008 tagged book, lou rosenfeld, rosenfeld media with no comments

photo by chotda

After two years of discussions with Lou Rosenfeld, I’ve finally signed with his publishing company, Rosenfeld Media, to write a book entitled See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas. For those that don’t know, Rosenfeld Media is like an O’Reilly for user experience books. They focus on compact, practical [...]

History of Video Games 1972-2007

In Game On, I've Journal on 5 April 2008 with 3 comments

When we visited my parents in February, it occurred to my dad that both my brother Jamie and I now work in the video game industry. Jamie started his own company, Klei Entertainment, whilst I joined an early stage startup for gamers called Raptr. My dad said,

I let you guys play too many video games [...]

How to Throw a Surprise Party

In I've Journal on 27 March 2008 tagged coley, coleysupplies, party with 3 comments

1. Don’t send invites too early - the earlier you send the invites, the more time there is to leak the existence of the party. Send them about a week in advance so people can block it out.

2. Don’t give too many details - start out with a Save the Date. Less details means less [...]

Yet Another Interim Theme

In I've Journal on 7 January 2008 tagged bravonation, kevnull, powazek with 9 comments

My friend, the talented designer and entrepreneur, Derek Powazek came up with this very simple theme which fits the bill perfectly for me for a “stand-in” design while I’m slammed with product releases.

Speaking of product releases, I designed and helped release BravoNation a couple of weeks ago. We launched just before Christmas so it was [...]

This Week

In I've Journal, Thoughts and Rants on 29 August 2007 with 1 comment

This week

My brother’s getting married
Our apartment got a notice to vacate
One of my best friends got engaged

Phew.

Clearly You

In Comic Relief, I've Journal on 8 June 2007 tagged comic, dilbert with no comments

That was the subject MJ had when she sent me this comic. So perfect.

(I wish Dilbert was CC licensed so I don’t feel bad about linking the comic here but this one is just so fitting).

Wordpress Theme Playing

In I've Journal on 5 June 2007 with 2 comments

Originally I was gonna write the title as “f-this!”. I wanted to quickly pick a new theme just to change things up without spending the time to do the design myself but all of these themes lack in one form or another and the time I spend tweaking them may as well be spent on [...]

The Pipes Team Shout Out

In I've Journal, Man at Work on 8 February 2007 tagged bradley horowitz, caterina fake, daniel raffel, edward ho, jonathan trevor, leonard lin, Man at Work, pasha sadri, pipes, yahoo! with 3 comments

I tagged a bunch of people in my last post but I wanted to do a proper shout out because the talent is really phenomenal and worth talking about in more detail. The Pipes team started in September with four people:

Pasha Sadri: the man with the idea, who also came up [...]

Rewire the Web

In I've Journal, Man at Work on 7 February 2007 tagged daniel raffel, edward ho, jonathan trevor, Man at Work, pasha sadri, pipes, yahoo! with 12 comments

The project I’ve been deep into for the past few months, Pipes, has finally launched! I worked with an awesome group of people to put this out and we did it in an amazingly short time. I only joined the team in November and they started work on it in September. I do think of [...]

Communicating Concepts Through Comics

In Comic Relief, I've Journal on 31 January 2007 tagged conference, iasummit, iasummit2006, presentation, shift, uxweek, uxweek2006 with 19 comments

Updated again with IA Summit 2007 Workshop. I’ll be posting about the other presentation I did with Tom Wailes, and the slides, shortly.

For those who’ve attended the session or workshops previously, thanks! Hope you enjoyed it and as always, we’d love to hear how it was applied and whether it was useful. More importantly, we’d [...]