Blog of Much Holding

(checks trending topics) Good, no celebrity died overnight… # So… Is Tuesday suppossed to suck or is it just me? Sigh. # Well the review of the functional prototype went well, though we didn't get to the screens I knew…

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nother day, another celebrity death. RIP impressionist/comic Fred Travalena… http://www.fredtravalena.com/index01.html # Doing UI designs on a deadline…LOTS of them. But I have the primary interaction model nailed (methinks) so it's cut, paste, and tweak. #UX # @DVDGeeks Well Wayne Newton…

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Ok, I'm up, I'm up! # Wow, TV pitchman Billy Mays has died. http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article1014018.ece # RT Vintage 2.0 – Glossy Retro Takes Over Web Design http://bit.ly/3pX6kp (via @JesseNewhart) # Forget Michael Bay, I'm watching the original Transformers cartoon with my…

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I’M A BIG FAN OF PITCHMEN, THE REALITY SHOW, AND I NOTE WITH GREAT SADNESS THE PASSING OF BILLY MAYS THIS MORNING. HERE’S A FUNNY CLIP IN HIS MEMORY. [youtube]DtHI6e_Exhc[/youtube]

@NathanFillion Yup, went there last year, no Firefly OR Doctor Who at the SF Museum in Seattle. They're dead to me now. in reply to NathanFillion # The one true Elvis. And there's nothin' funny 'bout it at all. ♫…

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Sad. Very sad. But, as De Kelley said at the end of Star Trek II, “He’s not dead. As long as we remember him.” Here’s one thing I remember: Captain Eo, the movie he did for Disney’s Epcot park. Here…

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Writing up research findings… # Still writing up research findings… #UX # Still writing up research findings (I'm determined to get this draft done today) and wishing I was in LA with @dvdgeeks and @televixen…#UX # Oh, Omnigraffle Pro –…

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W00T! All the personas are created and validated against our field data. Now on to final finding definition… #UX # RT @BreakingNews: BULLETIN — ACTRESS FARRAH FAUCETT HAS DIED. # Wow, Michael Jackson is dead. Again… Wow. # Powered by…

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User research data analysis, day 2. Still going well, and should have draft personas defined by end of the day… #UX # Day 2 of data analysis complete: 4 draft personas, 2 aligned by a common theme, were created. Thanks…

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Finally shook the last of this cold, thanks to a deep sleep (courtesy Tylenol PM and 2 gin and tonics – for purely medicinal purposes). # RIP Ed McMahon http://www.CNN.com # Coming this Christmas, all the actors who played The…

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Ah, Monday… You confound me so. # Merging interview data from excel into word, to print out stickers for an affinity exercise, is – surprisingly – not very exciting. #UX # Hmm… How Apple and At&t are closing the mobile…

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Well, I needed a good nights sleep – didn't get it. Now I'm off to buy a Nintendo DSi for my son Neal's early birthday present… # Hmm… Paramount and Sony potentially merging? Here's reax/analysis to the rumor (from @DrewAtHitFix):…

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My official title in my day job was, for a long time, “User Experience Designer”. I now go by the more prestigious title “User Experience Architect,” which looks better on the business card but, like my earlier one, is a…

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