First, a quick shout-out to SuzanneR on the Content + UX Slack for catching the fact that The Interconnected was displaying my name incorrectly. Yeah. Since I was writing about name policing, I’m feeling a bit silly for not checking before hitting “publish”. Call it a bad design decision 😉 This is a story about … Continue reading “The Third Quarter Phenomenon”

If I had a nickel for every time I couldn’t figure out whether there would be chicken on my chicken caesar salad, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot — but it’s funny that it’s happened twice. I do a lot of food shopping online. It always comes with mixed results because almost … Continue reading “Does my Chicken Caesar Salad come with chicken?”

I’m going to write about “bad” design. When I write about “bad” design, I want you all to understand that a design that’s bad for me might be a perfectly good design for a different user. It might even be the ideal design. It’s about the context. For example, I recently applied to speak at … Continue reading ““Bad” design and design decisions”