UX/UI Design and Development
Recently, my daughter has had a little trouble with bedtimes and naps. It’s a phase, I’m sure, something she’s gone through before, but it’s always nice to see what advice others have on the subject. After googling “How to help nap time go smoothly”, I was presented an article on Parents.com. After a few seconds, …
The good folks at Oxford Pennant came up with Safework Signs, a quick and easy way to buy attractive, informative signs for businesses who need to enforce COVID-19 safety measures. I love love love love LOVE these. I want to wallpaper my office with them. (Hat tip to those cool fools at NOTCOT.org)
I’ve been seeing a number of really good “single serving” websites related to Coronavirus. I thought I’d share some links with you so you could play with them, too.
My mother-in-law has been a mask making machine recently. She has been using her amazing sewing skills to make cloth masks for darn-near everyone I know, including my parents, my daughter, two each for my wife and I, my sister…the list goes on. Her industry and focus in making these masks is impressive. More impressive …
Re-thinking the UX of my home and family life My wife is an RN working in one of the largest hospitals in our state. She is on a unit that is a “Yellow Zone”: some patients are COVID-positive, some are “Rule-Outs” (that is, the hospital is trying to determine if they are positive or not) …
The last thing in the world I would want right now is, on top of all of this uncertainty, to pile on a huge amount of expectations about something I have no business expecting of myself. Merlin Mann, during the podcast Roderick on the Line, Episode 380: “The Impossible Me”
Bob Ross. The music of Enya. Sounds of the ocean. These are classic “soothers,” simple media that is there to put you at ease. For some, they cross over into ASMR. I am not one of those people: ASMR stuff gives me the heebie-jeebies. But I do enjoy a nice soother. Bob Ross gently, calmly …
I live in the Richmond, VA area and I have occasion, from time to time, to head to Willow Lawn, the location of what is arguably the coolest building in the entire city. I say “arguably” because certain publications/thought-leaders in architecture have said, without a doubt, that the building in question is one of the …
Putting Lipstick on a Dystopian Pig (OR: My Dad Will Kick Your Ass) A few months ago, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a start-up known as Aō Air debuted their Atmōs personal re-breather. I heard about it third-hand through the Nerdist Blog, who reported what they’d seen on The Verge. At first, I took …
As a person who forgets everything (I mean, literally, everything, it’s worrysome), Evernote is one of the most important apps in my life. I use it to store all the info I want to hang on to for dear life. I save articles in there, I write stories in there, I take notes and notes …