World IA Day 2015, Ann Arbor: Lessons from Dashboard Design

Break conventions

At World IA Day 2015 in Ann Arbor, Selwyn Kancharla shared lessons learned from building RazorFlow, an open source HTML5 dashboard framework, and how they will help you in creating happiness for your users.

Here are my notes from his talk: Continue reading World IA Day 2015, Ann Arbor: Lessons from Dashboard Design

World IA Day 2015, Ann Arbor: Taking the App out of Happiness

Taking the App out of Happiness

In her Taking the App out of Happiness presentation at World IA Day 2015, Ann Arbor, data experience designer Madeleine Filloux shared ideas about how we can approach design and mindfulness in the increasingly virtual world we live in.

Here are my notes from her talk: Continue reading World IA Day 2015, Ann Arbor: Taking the App out of Happiness

Photo of the Week: Who’s Staring at Me?

Art Deco owl railing

I placed my water bottle carefully on the carpet under my seat in the amphitheater. A quick glance to the stage four rows away revealed the next speaker was almost ready to start their talk at the conference.

And my eyes stopped as I saw two eyes staring at me intently. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Who’s Staring at Me?