This summer, at Adaptive Path’s UX Week in San Francisco, I took Leah Buley’s and Brandon Schauer’s workshop, “Good Design Faster,” a significant part of which concerned paper prototyping. I have always made a lot of paper-and-pencil sketches during my initial design process, so I’d like to say that I’ve always done paper prototyping. But [...]
I could talk about the projects I’ve been working on (which include Omeka, and online exhibition design in general), but at the moment I’m more excited by the recent staff changes. Specifically, we have a third UX designer on board, Trevor Thornton, and as such, we are officially a team of designers. We’re taking the [...]
I apologize for not posting this a week ago; I plead not enough hours in the day. Also, UX Week was just chock-full of great material! I was tough to pick something to write about. If you want a sampling of the sort of stuff we got to see, the folks at Adaptive Path have [...]
I’m off to Adaptive Path’s UX Week in San Francisco tomorrow. With this on my mind, I’ve also been thinking about some recent usability-focused articles that try to deconstruct—or at least analyze—the term “user experience.” My dislike of jargon has manifested itself in a large piece of paper posted in my cube, where I [...]
A few months ago, Anthony J. Zinni of Positive Space took to task projects that continue to claim “beta” long after it should be in alpha, and/or to seem cool and cutting-edge. (As though unfinished is the new finished. How art school.) I took particular notice of his article, and started thinking about the Digital [...]
My current professional incarnation is something of a career change for me, so before An Event Apart Boston 2008 last week, it had been a long time since I’d been to any professional conferences. But once there, I got the feeling that this series of small conferences is special, and experience at other events would [...]
The new Digital Gallery is very close to launch. In the meantime, I am working on some other projects (thankfully smaller in scope :) whose design development I am using to work out a sort of “NYPL style.” (This is the aforementioned online exhibition project, the manifestations of which are being built in Omeka.) For [...]
Michelle Misner and I are totally at this conference right now, having a great time and learning a lot. Expect a report from us later this week.
I’ll say it: NYPL Labs (the site) is boring. I’ve always thought of this first iteration/design of the site as a 0.5 version, but it’s high time it moved to 1.0. Additionally, I thought Labs 1.0 would consist solely of a redesign, a better layout of what’s already on the site. But I’ve heard from [...]
On April 3, NYPL launched (with fantastic success!) its LGBT Committee program and its accompanying website, LGBT@NYPL. Originally the site had a specifically bloglike purpose; it evolved into more of a portal for accessing the LGBT-themed collections and events at the Library. To the site’s images, posts, lists of resources, and opportunities to become involved [...]
