Phew. Long day. One last jam-packed ride on the 49 Muni to Japantown for Andrew Crow’s closing Interaction Design workshop for UX Intensive. An intense day of prototyping followed by a closing party, complete with an open bar and wonderful new friends with Minnesota and Bay Area connections alike. Then, a dash across town to […]
Author Archives: Dane
Ghost-Riding The Whip
June 17, 2009 – 10:19 pm
The other day I learned from one of my coworkers that Bay Area culture is deeper and more nuanced than I could possibly imagine. Heart-touching music videos such as this one from E-40, that detail the finer points of the Hyphy movement, apparently make many locals’ hearts quicken with pride. Confused? Yeah, I am, too. […]
Task Flows and Character Counts
June 16, 2009 – 10:26 pm
Another busy night catching up on work. You might do better trying to catch me over at Twitter. Hugs, Dane
The Ganache Guru
June 15, 2009 – 10:18 pm
Today we kicked off UX Intensive with a rousing session of Design Strategy, hosted by none other than Brandon Schauer. It was a great time and we got to wield Sharpies and Post-It Notes and drafting dots with reckless abandon, all the while being fed like kings. It’s gonna be like this all week, with […]
A summons to all your foolish blood.
June 14, 2009 – 10:19 pm
826 Valencia is an amazing, wondrous place. I want to live in their world. I want to write again. I want to make people experience these things.
Martini has a thing for ice cream.
June 13, 2009 – 10:49 pm
I went south today, and met up with some friends for the Great American Food And Waiting In Line And Music Festival in Mountain View. Apparently the event planners had grossly underestimated America’s appetite for food, and the lines were so long our group actually began taking them in shifts. The one for burgers was […]
An Owl’s Life
June 12, 2009 – 10:45 pm
Dan just posted the first public transmission regarding our project, with a slick little banner of my design, and now I’m at a bit more liberty to talk about the work I’m doing at Adaptive Path. Smart.fm is a website dedicated to helping people accomplish goals and learn stuff they want to know, in a […]
I can’t wait to tell them about the exploding moon.
June 11, 2009 – 9:53 pm
I woke up at 6:30 this morning and realized I had to give a 30-minute presentation to the company at noon, introducing myself to the entire gang. I was gunning for a largely visual deck and had flagged a number of photos in Aperture for this purpose, but I hadn’t even started assembling the presentation […]
Let’s play a game!
June 10, 2009 – 9:12 pm
What does Dane smell on a typical day during his bicycle commute? Spoiled Milk Exhaust Urine Raw Sewage Garbage Moist Garbage (a kind of garbage) McDonald’s I might channel some Dave Seah on this one and create a series of printed, fillable bubble forms. You know, to capture the olfactory rhythm of my ride.
Oliver’s Simple Fluid Dynamics Generator
June 10, 2009 – 8:35 pm
God damn this is cool. Click and drag in the black square to make the magic happen. Works best in the smokin’ Safari 4.0, because this beast is heavy on the Javascript. In any other browser you’ll wonder what in the hell I’m gettin’ so worked up about. Stuff like this just feeds my existing […]
