by Laura Creekmore | Sep 30, 2010 | Strategy, User experience
If you’re in the web industry, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that everyone — and I mean everyone — is an expert on what the web should be doing. It’s similar to education in this way: We all went to school, so we all think we know how a school ought to work....
by Laura Creekmore | May 24, 2010 | Strategy
Perhaps digital media isn’t the only industry that suffers from the intense naval-gazing we see around us. And I really didn’t mean to sound so disparaging right here on the front end. But sometimes it just drives me crazy to read all the inside baseball...
by Laura Creekmore | Apr 23, 2010 | Strategy
I’ve mentioned the cult of action here before. I don’t know if it’s a uniquely modern challenge, but I do know that today’s technology makes it easy to fall into: Your phone syncs with your calendar with your email with your note program with...
by Laura Creekmore | Mar 13, 2010 | Information management, Strategy
Now getting ready for a workshop session on wireframing, from a couple of guys I follow on Twitter: @zakiwarfel and @russu. Love this. Starting off with the point that in UX design, we never actually see the work. What’s better, wireframing or prototyping? This...
by Laura Creekmore | Nov 6, 2009 | Strategy
I’ve always been a reluctant member of the GTD cult — getting things done. Long a crusade by consultants and coaches, GTD got tagged and elevated by the Internet era. David Allen turned the whole thing into a business and even appears to have trademarked...
by Laura Creekmore | Sep 18, 2009 | Information management, Social media, Strategy
I’ve worked with content management systems since the late 1990s. And I can tell you there’s not been a perfect one invented. But some are much, much better than others. I’m a technology geek [n., person who enjoys new stuff], but sometimes I get...
