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Austin spends lots of time exploring how groups learn, innovate, and evolve their identities, an interest he explores for Comcast Interactive Media where he works as a Senior Information Architect.
In his off-time, Austin works as a development editor for Boxes and Arrows, volunteers with the Information Architecture Institute, and writes about better products, better teams, and better experience at his blog, Thinking and Making.
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04/05/2008 19:10"Shawn, I'm totally with you here. In fact, the next post explains behavior-based metrics a bit more, and I think they have two key qualities: 1. They measur…"
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04/08/2008 01:36"Paul, That's refreshing to hear. And I think you're right about it being the obvious. I'm still not sure why the metrics people use are so skewed some places.…"
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04/15/2008 13:01"Hey Jon! I found this great article from Jeff Patton on what he calls the “slow software movement': * http://agileproductdesign.com/blog/slow_software.h…"
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04/15/2008 13:11"One of my goals has always been to increase the team's design literacy. That's just good practice in any organization with any process. Design literacy enables …"
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04/16/2008 14:43"Dude. Awesome insight. I think that begs the question: when we communicate in person, how much does our audience *really* affect what we say. We assume it aff…"
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04/23/2008 10:38"Tanya, I didn't even know the Second Life island was going to be active. I think part of Twitter's brilliance is how it easy it is to use it to create a virtu…"
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05/18/2008 11:27"”... my perception of social intimacy is entirely relative. I may feel (and truly believe) I am close to you and you may feel (and truly believe) that we …"
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05/31/2008 21:51"Brian, I totally agree on our primary goal as UX practitioners. If I seemed casual, that's only because I don't think the UX is the most important part of wor…"
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06/16/2008 16:26"Thanks! I appreciate the kind words. I actually came across your blog recently. Wish you wrote more."
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06/16/2008 16:27"One thing I liked about when we did the exercise for our team is the way we couldn't necessarily agree on an “Only”. That can be a useful insight, t…"
A sample 'Only' statement for the I.A. Institute -
07/29/2008 02:25"The first time I tried this, it was for a specific, but pretty broad project (Fancast). Since the Only statement focuses on differentiation, you could use it at…"
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07/29/2008 02:34"I've been mulling this over (for a month), but I disagree. Sometimes better than yourself is all you have to launch, but it's never enough, especially for comme…"
Improving qualitative metrics: adding comparisons -
01/05/2009 23:19"Thank you David. I was just thinking about redesigning to make it more cluttered. Your comment came at exactly the write time to remind me to keep it clean."
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02/21/2005Evaluating experience design
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02/22/2005Personal information spaces, diagram by Dan Brown
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02/22/2005Experience design at the brink of infinity
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02/23/2005Defining the user’s mental model: three factors that drive experience
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09/13/2007Products as duck-billed platypi
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09/15/2007How to not boil lobsters: strategy keeps projects on track
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09/15/2007Changing the Channel (interview with Livia Labate and Austin Govella)
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09/29/2007The International Conference on Managing Design in Global Environments call for papers
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11/26/2007There and back again (a return to Houston)
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12/17/2007Assessing your team's UX skills
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12/17/2007Web standards didn't kill HTML
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01/05/2008Too many feeds? Ration your feed subscriptions!
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01/07/2008The best books on innovation
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01/10/2008Fancast officially launches
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02/10/2008Lazy Site Map Generator
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03/17/2008Designing with patterns: Lessons from Yahoo! and Comcast
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03/17/2008“...quite delighted by small gorillas...”
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03/18/2008A new design
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03/20/2008We tried to warn you: how organizations are architected to fail
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03/24/2008Unique visitors is a dumb metric
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04/07/200872 questions to ask on your first day
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04/07/2008Agile + User Experience = Parallel work streams
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04/08/2008Agile + UX = idealized vs. current state
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04/10/2008Practical prototyping: 2008 IA Summit Panel
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04/10/2008The U.X. health check, a Summit side conversation
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04/16/2008Some thoughts about Twitter
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05/02/2008How important is the polite fiction of secrecy?
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05/07/2008Agile + UX: six strategies for more agile user experience
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05/28/2008A common language for interaction design
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06/02/2008David Armano interviews Bruce Nussbaum
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06/03/2008Growing up online in super cities
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06/05/2008Fantastic case study on ATM design
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06/05/2008The 'Only' statement: focus on your project's key goals
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06/06/2008Useful useless things we taught our toddler
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06/12/2008A sample 'Only' statement for the I.A. Institute
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06/19/2008EightShapes announces UX deliverables workshop in August
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06/20/2008Design research reaps $1.6M in organizational change
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06/23/2008Improving qualitative metrics: adding purpose to your scales
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06/24/2008How purpose changes ratings
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06/24/2008Improving qualitative metrics: adding comparisons
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07/29/2008Weekly usability tests, Nielsen talks about Tivo
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07/29/2008Two questions about Information Architecture
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08/30/2008Target's ClearRX prescription bottle redesign wasn't all that
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09/02/2008Wilson Katter's Business Deal Basics
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10/14/2008Designing versus doing
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10/29/2008Methods for our madness
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12/17/2008The producers, making things, and monsters