Category Archives: UIE Web App Masters Tour

Crafting Your Project’s “Vision Quest”: Thoughts on Jared Spool’s “Turning Back to the Future” Presentation

June 18, 2010 – 1:15 pm

The closing presentation at the UIE Web App Masters Tour in Philadelphia was “Turning Back to the Future” by Jared Spool. In this session, Jared shared how “successful teams learn about what they should design from their future” by having a shared vision. I’ve collected some thoughts about what a “vision quest” needs to succeed.

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Some Lessons Learned from Live-Tweeting the UIE Web App Masters Tour

June 10, 2010 – 1:53 pm

I learned a lot during my tenure as “citizen journalist” during the User Interface Engineering Wep App Masters Tour in Philadelphia. In this post, I share some of my experiences and a few “lessons learned” that I picked up along the way.

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I Had More in Common With 37signals Than I Realized

June 10, 2010 – 8:26 am

After hearing Jason Fried, founder of 37signals, talk from “behind the curtain” about his work philosophies at the Philadelphia UIE Web App Masters Tour, I found I had more in common with 37signals than I realized.

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