Cross-posted at Adaptive Path. Today is Ada Lovelace day…a day to celebrate women in technology. Earlier this year, I joined 1000+ people in a pledge sponsored by Suw Charman-Anderson: “I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do [...]
Entries Tagged as 'creative projects'
In honor of Ada, I honor Hildegard
March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · creative projects, neat things, tech notes
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Sailing the C’s of Change
December 16th, 2008 · No Comments · User experience, creative projects, work
Tomorrow (Wed 12/17/08) I’ll be presenting an Adaptive Path virtual seminar on Sailing the C’s of Change. I’ve been thinking, wondering and tracking four themes over the past 18 months. In this seminar, I’ll share the patterns I’ve identified and propose ways that we can start to make the most of these opportunities. Seminar description: This [...]
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Fave idea of the week : May 30th, 2008
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · creative projects, fave ideas
A couple of collegues and I were discussing the process of doing competitive/comparitive analyses, and Alexa asked “if you pretty much know something is true, what’s the role of a competitive analysis to prove it?” Which is an excellent question. And Sarah had an excellent answer: “Well, it depends. It’s important to know when you [...]
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Fave idea of the week : Apr 25, 08
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · User experience, creative projects, fave ideas, sketchbook
There’s something interesting about disconnecting natural and intuitive. They really aren’t the same thing, yet I have often assumed they are. If you look up intuitive, you’ll find synonyms: natural, innate. And if you look up natural, you’ll find synonyms of spontaneous, unaffected, genuine, unmannered. So far so good. But if you delve a little deeper and explore “intuition” [...]
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Fave idea of the week: Mar 21st 2008
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · creative projects, fave ideas, work
Happy 7th Birthday Adaptive Path! Seven years ago, Seven intrepid explorers founded a great company. One where people take their work seriously, but not themselves. Where egos are less important than getting the best ideas out into the world, and where work+life balance and being a human being always trumps making the big bucks. And [...]
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the EARP model
October 15th, 2007 · No Comments · creative projects, sketchbook
   the EARP model A few years ago in a moment of desperation, I came up with the EARP model. It’s weathered well, so I’m sharing it here. EARP = E-Embrace; A-Accept; R-Reject; P-Postpone. You gotta be careful with the last one, because it just shoots stuff back into the top funnel. Other than that, [...]
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blast from the past : web-safe crayons
February 19th, 2007 · No Comments · creative projects
Remember when it was web-safe or else? Back in 2000, I made a hack for some friends…web-safe crayons. I just found the files while looking around for something that my file system ate. While I didn’t find what I was looking for, I did come across the instructions for making your own box of web-safe [...]
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12 things to do by chance
February 19th, 2007 · No Comments · creative projects
A while back, a friend was feeling down, so I made her a “do-things” die. I found a template on the interwebs, then made my own version of it with a list of things to do by chance. It fits in an envelope and mails great…as long as it’s flat. All you need is a printer, scissors and tape [...]
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Making the most of old usability test tapes
February 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment · creative projects
 AudioFlowers09 Originally uploaded by kateruttr. What to do with 20 old usability tapes? Well, you could make them into audio flowers…it doesn’t take long and they turn out quite lovely. The kicker part was making the tape cases into bases. It looks like the tape flowers are growing out of the tape and flowering [...]
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