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August in America, day twenty-four 27 Aug 2013 | 11:07 am
Today was the opening day of An Event Apart Chicago so I spent the whole day at the back of the room absorbing the knowledge bombs being dropped. As usual, the quality of the talks was excellent, and...
August in America, day twenty-three 26 Aug 2013 | 11:56 am
Powers Of Ten is a remarkable short film created by Charles and Ray Eames in 1968. It deals with scale, going out to the distance of our galactic neighbourhood and down to the Planck measurement. It ...
August in America, day twenty-two 25 Aug 2013 | 11:22 am
I’m back from a lovely evening out with Jared and Jessica, unwinding in my Chicago hotel room after a day of travel. It began with a journey on the BART to San Francisco airport. Figuring out how to ...
August in America, day twenty-one 24 Aug 2013 | 02:12 pm
I played truant from UX Week this morning to meet up with Mike for a coffee and a chat at Cafe Vega. We were turfed out when the bearded, baseball-capped, Draplinesque barista announced he had to shut...
August in America, day twenty 23 Aug 2013 | 12:48 pm
As predicted, today’s schedule of two back-to-back half-day workshops at UX Week was indeed quite exhausting. But it was also very rewarding. Every time I run a workshop, I always end up learning som...
August in America, day nineteen 22 Aug 2013 | 12:47 pm
Tomorrow I’m going to be spending all day teaching workshops at UX Week: two back-to-back half-day workshops on Responsive UX. So today I took it easy in preparation for what will probably be a knacke...
Double tap delay 22 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
Even though my encounter with Ted yesterday was brief, we still managed to turn the conversation to browsers, standards, and all things web in our brief chat. Specifically, we talked about this propo...
August in America, day eighteen 21 Aug 2013 | 01:22 pm
UX Week kicked off today. It’s a four-day event: one day of talks, followed by two days of workshops, followed by another day of talks. I’ll be spending all of the third day doing workshops back-to-ba...
August in America, day seventeen 20 Aug 2013 | 01:07 pm
Today began bright and early with a delicious breakfast at Zazie. Every other time I’ve been to that place, I’ve had to wait in line for ages because on the weekends, it’s a ridiculously popular spot ...
August in America, day sixteen 19 Aug 2013 | 01:33 pm
Today was mostly a travel day. The flight from San Diego to San Francisco is a short hop, but when that flight is delayed by two hours, you’re going to spend far longer than intended within the confin...
