Working as the Crowd Cheers

It’s easy to keep working into the night if you have a soccer match with the constant cheers of the crowd in the background. It also helps if the match is a replay of a game (US vs. Czech Republic) that you would rather not focus on too much so that it’s...

Why Use Wireframes?

I was reading The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications Case Study: Prototyping Complex Interactions by Andres Zapata on Boxes and Arrows and within the text was this question: Why continue using wireframes? At all? Sometimes my coworkers and I...

Got Mint?

I finally ponied over the $30 for Shaun Inman’s web site statistics software, Mint. I talked to Shaun at SXSW. He’s a really nice guy, who also happens to be an excellent designer and programmer. I have been inspired by his code and design more than once....

Drupal CMS Switchover

A while back I wrote about my first weekend with Drupal, which after exploring other content management systems and a little bit of soul searching, I decided to use for the International Transplant Nurses Society site. While I had already built the site according to a...

How Old Am I?

I had dinner recently with several woman from ITNS – “the nurses,” as one friend coined them. It was the first time I had met most of them. The woman I had met with previously thought I was 24. I was flattered, of course. Another woman, whom I email a lot...

High on Amsterdam

I have been told I brought the nice weather from Barcelona here to Amsterdam. Yesterday, I think it was actually nicer than Barcelona. Amsterdam is a very stimulating city, on many levels. I have an excellent personal tour guide who has shown me a good deal of the...