Blog of Much Holding

Fired up this morning with more blog and design ideas – my muse didn’t take a break last night… # Well designed interactive map of job gains and losses in US over the past 5 years: http://bit.ly/ATt9L #ux #uidesign #jobs…

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UI Design as game: Good article on Mint’s “How fit are you?” application… http://bit.ly/wf7bK #UX #UI #ixd #mint.com # Moving to a new desk. Of my old cubicle, I can only say this… Of all the ones I have encountered…

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In case you did not see it, last week’s CSI was a very funny episode about a murder at a SF convention in Las Vegas. The convention was focused on the fictional show “Astro Quest”, a pretty obvious parody of…

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OK, nature, we get it – pollination is great, helps flowers grow, circle of life, etc. You can stop it now. # Starting to plan the next Big User Research project. It’s gonna be an aggressive schedule, without a lot…

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Her sequel song, “O Spiderman (For Kitchenette)”, remains unreleased to this very day… ♫ http://blip.fm/~51zxp # In between meetings, I am revising the UI design that suffered Epic Fail when we tested it with users two weeks ago… #UX #uidesign…

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Inspired by a recent Twitter conversation:

Setting up an easy-set pool for my boys for the summer… Unfortunately, it isn’t setting easy. # Ah, the “easy set” pool is ready for use – my boys are happy. Very tiresome work, but worth it to see the…

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As I’m reading all the news about the swine flu outbreak, I just realized – I picked the wrong week to start rereading The Stand… #yikes # @Lileks Your opinion of the various Bonds mirrors mine precisely – You weren’t…

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Hat tip to Mark Evanier for posting this and bring it to my attention: here’s a fantastic video, using the same type of frozen “bullet time” effect we saw in The Matrix… only with a moving camera that “walks through”…

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The second (and last) public auction of props, sets, and costumes from the Best Frakkin’ Show Ever, Battlestar Galactica, takes place May 8-10th in Pasadena, California. Unfortunately, I can not attend, because money is tight right now, and it would…

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This site reports that Gillian Anderson, formerly Scully from X-Files, is set to play The Rani, an old Doctor Who villain, against Matt Smith in the next series of Doctor Who episodes. Hmm. Color me skeptical, but the tabloid that…

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Working from home to knock out some deadlines, so unable to attend my company’s charity event (insert frowny face here) #UX # Writing design strategy docs, coding css and HTML, editing findings, working on user flows and designs – variety…

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Ah, so THIS is hardcore. It was nice of them to let me know. ♫ http://blip.fm/~4tdfd # @leenjones No, I did not know that. Hmmm… Bacon flavored chicken… or tuna… Maybe even bacon-flavored pork! # Good article on Gen Y…

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Great video: Modern Life is broken, from Seth Godin http://tinyurl.com/dh6d93 #UX # RT Skeptic History: On April 22, 1986, James Randi exposed Peter Popoff’s radio cheating on Tonight Show. http://bit.ly/1pnTY (via @krelnik) # @peggyolson Gonna pitch some design Ideas today…

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