Ten years ago I asked my manager if we could go on a walk. I was working as a front-end developer for a tiny web development shop in Bend, Oregon. I was young, talented, and a bit of a shit. My manager sensed something was up, so instead of a walk he recommended we go […]
Author Archives: Dane
My hypothetical talk for design students, based on a few years working at one of the best UX studios in the world.
December 3, 2012 – 12:21 pm
The other day I got an email from Erik Stolterman, which got me thinking how nice it would be to get back to Bloomington one of these days and check in on the HCI/d program. With life and work and all the trip probably won’t happen soon, but our correspondence made me reflect on the […]
On Consulting
November 20, 2012 – 6:47 am
For two and a half years, now, I’ve been working as a design consultant. It wasn’t until the last year, however, that it’s begun to sink in for me what that actually means. Let’s get one thing straight. Design is extremely important in my work. Every day I’m bustin’ hump in the tool du jour, […]
Introducing Another Website For You To Check On A Regular Basis In Addition To Twitter And Flickr And Kate’s Blog
December 26, 2010 – 8:40 pm
It’s called thegreatsunra.com. From 2001 to 2006 I maintained a weblog on a fairly regular basis. In those early years it was new and exciting to be “publishing” to the “internet” to “people” who may or may not be there; who you may or may not even know. I started losing steam in 2005. My […]
The Honda Fit EV concept car has a high heels button!
November 25, 2010 – 8:35 am
In other news, I cannot recommend the WordPress iPad app.
More often than not, my day resembles a modern art exhibit.
November 15, 2010 – 9:17 pm
Someone applied a taxonomy to the sandwich. The fellow in the turkey hat was not amused. The lifeguard gave me a weird look, before dancing off in a jig. The crazed man sat in the middle of the sidewalk, glowering at the legal pad still in its packaging. The man in the sleeping bag shouted […]
Splitting Subversion into Multiple Git Repositories
November 1, 2010 – 9:00 am
For the last three years I’ve been maintaining all my projects and websites, including Daneomatic and Brainside Out, as well as I’ve Been To Duluth and Terra and Rosco and Siskiwit, in a single Subversion repository. At any given time I find myself tinkering with a number of different projects, and honestly it keeps me […]
Clean Slate
September 26, 2010 – 7:20 pm
I’ve been cleaning a lot of the cruft out of my domains lately. Subdomains, development domains, MySQL databases originally setup to stage all sorts of nefarious dealings… they’ve all been pulled up by the roots and tossed into heaping piles of gzipped tarballs. As part of this activity I’ve been cleaning out my Google Analytics […]
A Multitasker’s Perspective: Behold, the Lowly Post-it Note
August 16, 2010 – 1:21 am
Check out Kord Campbell’s killer rig, complete with four monitors, at least two computers, two keyboards, an iPhone and an iPad. Now, I don’t necessarily believe that multitasking is a bad thing, nor do I agree with Nicholas Carr and his assertion that the internet is ruining our ability to think. I do believe, however, […]
