Monthly Archives: June 2008

Designing for diverse audiences

Katrina Alcorn
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Folks at Hot have been doing a lot of public speaking lately. So much, in fact, that it seems to be the only thing I have time to blog about.

So, here we are again. Renee Anderson and I gave a talk at the Commonwealth Club last night. It…

Managing UX teams

Katrina Alcorn
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I gave a talk yesterday at the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) conference about managing user experience teams. (It’s a version of a talk that I gave last year at the IA Summit and again at UX Week.) In it, I talk about the importance of personality in hiring, and…

Scene 360 [Interview with Cathy Lo

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I have some good news to share and I hope you don’t mind a little shamless self-promotion. I was recently interviewed by Scene360, an online film and arts magazine which has received multiple nominations from SXSW and was selected as top site by AIGA a couple years…

Furoshiki

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More with Less

Furoshiki are an ancient Japanese wrapping cloth that can be used to wrap boxes, bottles and books, make folded bags, and much more. I ran into Furoshiki.com at this year’s Makers Faire. The site has nice instructions for a variety of foldings.

IxDA-SF presents Jon Littell on cats and lions

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Hottie Jon Littell will be speaking at the next IxDA-SF event on Tuesday, June 3rd. His talk “Herding Cats and Taming Lions: Using Facilitation Skills to Create Better Design” is about facilitation and other underrepresented but vital “soft skills”. A handful of us at Hot will…