A sneak peek at an upcoming feature - Get ready for Social Posting, plus how...
Re-structuring project teams As we prepare for a fall/winter release schedule that’s very ambitious, we’ve been trying something new on the technology team at Emma. Rather than working on one project...
View ArticleUsability testing at Emma - How we plan, execute and learn from usability tests
There’s a lot of talk these days about being a user experience designer — what it means, who does it, who doesn’t do it, how to break into the field. This kind of dialogue is illuminating at times —...
View ArticleEmma attends WebVisions in Portland - Thoughts on user experience, usability...
Several folks on Emma’s UX team — Geoff, Trey and Jairo (who are based in Nashville) and Jenny and Benjamin (who call Portland home) — attended WebVisions, a conference that explores web design,...
View ArticleUsing JavaScript templates for clean, dynamic HTML - Concatenation is for...
The concept of JavaScript templates was new to me before I attended the jQuery conference in Boston last year. That and PubSub were the two big takeaways for me. Now I can’t imagine coding without...
View ArticleEmma attends Midwest UX - Research, communicating and lean user experience
Last weekend, Geoff Alday and I traveled to Columbus, OH for the Midwest UX Conference. The conference was co-organized by the IxDA Columbus and Columbus UPA and drew around 250 folks. We wasted no...
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