On Customer Service
I’m sitting at a Panera two blocks from my apartment to write this blog post. Partially, this is because I love their frozen lemonade. Mostly it’s because my Internet is out at home. I moved into my apartment less than …
Coffee Cup Shenanigans: An Epilogue
On Friday, our UX Lead having been out sick for three days straight and us being, well, bored and left to our own devices over lunch, Alaina and I decided to kidnap his coffee mug and take pictures of it …
Call it like you see it
A picture is worth a thousand words. And sometimes, a picture version of words is worth a thousand words in a non-system-standard font. Read the full story about this cake over at Cake Wrecks; the short version is that the …
WasabiJane Reboot:2010
In a fit of uncharacteristic motivation, I spent Friday evening redesigning my website (see also: the aforementioned afoot changes, only 3.5 months late). I’m nowhere near done, of course, but it’s already better than what I had before. Ah, what …
Changes are afoot
I stumbled on this tonight: I absolutely love it. It’s plain, simple, and perfect. There were other things I was going to write, but I’m tired and having image uploading issues. Suffice it to say, if I’m not completely lazy, …
Why Microsoft Continues Going Strong
One of my clients is pretty heavily reliant on Macs. This is fine by me… when I’m in the office. But it’s kind of difficult to look at Keynote files from my home PC. Keynote, to the unaware, is an …
Life lesson #2197
Good, user-centered design is often simple and elegant. I just wish the process of designing was as well.
Image Dump: Fill the Bus
It’s been a while since I did an image dump: The Fill the Bus project is being run by the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement. We needed a very fast turnaround for this. I think it took me …
Of Corrupted Cities
I’ve been playing the most recent Prince of Persia game over the last few days. The basic premise is that the unnamed “Prince” (actually a wandering tomb raider) gets lost and stumbles into an abandoned city. As it was built …
Life on a North Woods Farm
I have an uncle who lives on a farm in northern Wisconsin. He’s been sending weekly missives for ages, but he recently started a blog: oldgrayegg.blogspot.com. Go read it. His life is more interesting than mine.