http://www.greenonions.com Dan Brown's thoughts on user experience, information architecture, consumer electronics, and Bluegrass. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:09:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the things Nathan and I wanted to do with EightShapes is offer training. Sharing our experiences with other user experience professionals is enormously valuable, and contributes to our own education in the field. I'm therefore really excited to announce that EightShapes is holding its first public workshop on August ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2008/06/05/eightshapes-announces-first-public-workshop/ Summary: Applying Passover seder's parable of the four children to the design technique of creating personas. Don't say we didn't warn you. About 20 years ago, my sister and I wrote our own Haggadah, the book used during the Passover seder. The Haggadah tells the story of Passover, the liberation of ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2008/02/24/personas-good-enough-for-moses-good-enough-for-me/ A couple years ago, I wrote an article called Information Architecture 2.0 on how information architects will need to adapt to the web's changing landscape. I wrote the article when some people feared the demise of the practice of information architecture, when Web 2.0 was equated with tagging and more-or-less ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2008/01/27/information-architecture-20-revisited/ One of the perks of owning your own design firm is that you can make a difference in the world that you might not be able to make as an individual. EightShapes has grown tremendously this year, and Nathan and I thought it only right to share the love. To that ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2007/12/21/eightshapes-2007-donations/ EightShapes Keyboard Shortcut Mousepads -- You can trade 'em! Originally uploaded by brownorama EightShapes is proud to be a gift bag sponsor at UX Week 2007. Our contribution -- a mousepad with keyboard shortcuts for one of five popular diagramming applications. Here's the cool part: if you got a mousepad for a program ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2007/08/15/eightshapes-keyboard-shortcut-mousepads-you-can-trade-em/ You've read Krug, Zeldman, Shedroff, Powazek, Saffer, and maybe even Brown, now see them live, at the Voices that Matter conference this October in San Francisco. If rubbing elbows with your favorite web design authors isn't incentive enough, you can get a $100 discount off registration with the code WD-BROW, as ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2007/07/20/voices-that-matter/ Over the next few months, I'm participating in a number of exciting conferences. For most of them, I'll be discussing different aspects of user experience documentation. The line-up of speakers and attendees at all of these conferences is a who's who of the web design business. If you plan on attending ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2007/07/11/dans-whereabouts-summer-and-fall-2007/ I'll be teaching a class called "The Basics of Information Architecture" for Web Managers University on March 28. This is a hands-on workshop for people just getting started in information architecture (or a good brush-up for people with some experience). We'll be looking at applying IA principles and techniques to ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2007/02/15/basics-of-ia-class-at-web-managers-university/ At the IA Summit this year, I'll be giving a workshop on information architecture deliverables. I've given versions of this workshop previously and have received very positive feedback. The workshop is almost entirely hands-on. Within minutes of starting the day, we'll be composing documents and developing best practices. Since it's only ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2007/01/29/workshop-on-ia-deliverables/ In Making Comics, Scott McCloud identifies five decisions that comics creators must make in creating comics. The first of these is "choice of moment" -- which moments in a scene get exposed in the comic. Looking at any comic, you can see how this is a difficult and important decision: ... http://www.greenonions.com/archives/2006/11/26/choice-of-moment/