The YOW! crew certainly know how to organise things fast keep things running smoothly. One weeks notice, three cities, almost 500 people. Thanks to Lisa and the crew for their great support. And thanks to all the fine guys and gals who showed up over the last week and contributed to some great discussions. For [...]
At Agile Australia, Doug Blue from seek.com.au (Australia’s premier job search site) gave a great talk explaining elements of their product strategy and A/B feature testing. Doug included an example that perfectly illustrates just how much impact a few pixels can have. Seek wanted to increase the number of people signing up for email alerts. [...]
Just got the dates confirmed from the fine people at YOW! Nights. Its all go for later this month. Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. If you missed Design Eye for a Dev Guy at Agile Australia ’12, now’s the chance to catchup. See how everyone on the team can understand how visual perception is critical for [...]
When we’re faced with large amounts of data, ofttimes we scurry to aggregate, summarise, tally and total so we can glean meaning from the mass of numbers. The trouble is we don’t always know what the data is concealing. We don’t know the best analysis to perform that will reveal insight. One compute device that [...]
Great design is defined not by how nice something looks, but by how well it works. My favourite things, those contraptions where the design is beautiful, have an intrinsic elegance based on how they perform when used. The elegance of the single speed, fixed wheel bicycles I restore – the bare minimum required to make [...]
Wow! The Agile Australia conference in Melbourne last week demonstrated just how broad the uptake of “sensible” software delivery has been in this country. I spoke to people from all types of enterprises, people at all levels of the company. Startups to (previously?) lumbering corporations, CIOs to testers. For those who enjoyed “Design Eye for [...]
I had a great time at SpeakerConf Rome last month. For those who asked for it, I’m making available the slides in Keynote format. I’m doing some revisions in the coming weeks and presenting in a few different places. Stay tuned. DOWNLOAD (4.2M)