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Category: ThoughtWorks

  • Celebrate World Usability Day 2006

    Wishing you and yours a delightful World Usability Day, from josh.ev9.org. More details, and perhaps an editorial, are forthcoming.

  • Election 2006 InfoGraphic Design

    Tonight is a big night here in the US. It’s election night, one of my favorite nights of the year. Well, it doesn’t really happen every year, but still. I like it. Ok? Alright. This evening I was hanging out at NPR.org checking out the stats. One of the reasons I enjoy election nights is…

  • Vote Today!

    Just a reminder from your friend at josh.ev9.org. Do your civic duty today. Get out and vote! Yesterday I spent $14.40 in order to vote, that’s how die-hard I am. My California absentee ballot didn’t show up in the mail until Saturday afternoon, so yesterday I had to ship my ballot via ExpressMail, which arrives…

  • Is Chicago the next hotbed of Digital Design?

    Now, I have no hard evidence to prove or disprove my hypothesis, but I get the feeling that there’s a Design tradition brewing in the Chicagoland area. Heck, it may precede my days here. Still, before I came to Chicago, if you were to ask me (and most of my design-minded friends, I’m sure) where…

  • Refocusing the Blog

    So it seems I’ve turned on my most prized readership. When I started this blog, there was one group of people in particular to whom I regularly directed my writing: my family and friends. My posts of late have featured more than a normal amount of Techno-speak, which is not all that fun to read…

  • Open Usability

    Well here’s a pretty cool idea. The Open Usability Project connects open source developers with Usability Experts with some time and resources on their hands. Maybe if I get a little beach time* I’ll step it up. * When you’re not assigned to a project at TW, you are put on “The Beach,” and are…

  • The ThoughtWorks “Sign”

    Over the last 2 days, I’ve met damn near a million people at my current project. The project has been going on for a few months now, so everybody else knows everybody else, and there’s a constant rhythm that comes from people knowing what they’re supposed to be doing. Everybody works together, and each person…

  • The First Day

    The first day on a project is always a long one. No matter how hard one tries, there is always just so much to catch up on and learn in order to feel somewhat comfortable with the topic/software/process. This morning I was up at 4 AM, out of the house by 5, and in a…

  • TerraPass

    I was milling about today on my employer’s internal discussion board and stumbled upon this fun little link. TerraPass sells credits to help negate the CO2 released by one’s car, home, and air flights. I’ve been looking for a way to help heal the world for my car and plane usage…what a cool idea.

  • Testing Testing Testing…

    Hey ThoughtWorkers, So at TWU we learned about a ton of different ways to test software: Unit Tests, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, etc. Here’s my question: What’s the point of a tested tool that the user (or perhaps customer, if you prefer) finds difficult to actually use? What about Usability Testing? How about testing to…