The Humane Experience

Went to Armuchee (BTW, pronounced Ar-mur-chee) for a Memorial Day Bluegrass festival. Camped and jammed for two nights. I packed up tired an...

If you want to get someone's attention, you have to get their focus. There are two ways to do this: Figure out what they are currently ...

I turn 62 tomorrow, and I feel that's a good occasion to set some self improvement goals: Play slower Play softer Play more precisely...

I am a hopeless Aristotelian; I love to create classifications and taxonomies that make neat little boxes and then I put hopelessly messy re...

In a very ironic twist, while working today, I took a Twitter link to a web article that discussed the distractions that keep us from worki...

Ta da! A new brand for my blog. I turn 62 this month--three score and twain--and I feel like it's time to shift my life focus a bit. I...

For every wise adage, there is an opposite and equally wise counterpart. "Fools rush in where wise men fear to tread" can be count...

I'm going to be running a meeting online in which I'll be showing design concepts to key customers to get their input. One of the pr...

Three mistakes we make when participating in social media: We fail to recognize that there ARE multiple realities. It is possible for two ...

I just had a blog posted at the ATC website . I talk about how technical communicator skills can be useful as a UX architect. By the way, ...

I lost an argument yesterday. Essentially, I proposed "to-may-to," a peer countered "to-mah-to," I rebutted with some ...

Sometimes we tout parallelism with the same misguided religious fervor with which we persecute any use of the passive voice. For example, I ...

I'm not saying...I'm only saying.

I went to an interesting TAG (Technology Association of Georgia) Product Management breakfast meeting last week, and I participated in a buz...

Sometimes I like to use my blog to wrestle outwardly with conflicts I am having so that others can weigh in with their perspectives. This on...

I love pi! It's Greek; it's irrational; it's a number that eschews exactitude and demands rounding. What exactly is it? Take a...

My favorite quote from the Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature...

Five months ago I was in the camp of "All I need my cell phone to do is make and take calls." Then I realized that sooner or later...

I've always wanted my own law. Here it is: t=log (UX)  User experience time is logarithmic. The user's first 30 seconds on an ap...

Just read a great joke--OK, a joke I liked at any rate. "A dairy farmer, in a fit of desperation because his cows aren't giving ...