Photo of the Week: Canoe Fan in Ann Arbor

Canoe Fan sculpture - a half-circle of fans forming an upright sculpture

I was on my way home from visiting the Peony Garden at the University of Michigan Nichols Arboretum this weekend when I decided to stop at Gallup Park.

It’s been a couple months since I last visited Gallup, and I wanted to see waterbirds on the Huron River.

Close to dusk, I pulled into the parking lot of the small craft boat launch east of Huron Parkway. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Canoe Fan in Ann Arbor

Sketchnoting Fun with Mike Rohde

Mike Rohde at Sketchnote Workshop

When Mike Rohde came to Ann Arbor a couple weeks ago to teach sketchnote workshops, he graciously offered to meet up and chat with people in our design community.

Local designers, an engineer, user experience folks, and a librarian joined us for a great evening at The Songbird Cafe.

We chatted about design, books, our favorite pens, and sketchnoting. Continue reading Sketchnoting Fun with Mike Rohde

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