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in which I write about stuff

responsive discovery

note: cmi d8 init presentation was interesting. I think it’ll be useful. haveaproblem.com responsive process website experience map: this might be JUST the thing for admissions lunch & learns: talking to the content creators

ux spaces

“everybody has a role to play in ux” (re twitter convo from last session) a bounded set of interactions: action content model in a site w/4 menu items, each one is a space they can be nested ( subject verb object ?) as a [role], I want to [do a thing] in order to [benefit] [...]

designops

closed mode vs open mode experience map making fun of using twitter bootstrap? our own UI library? Justin has gotten a pretty good start on that, but we definitely need to get that broader & deeper. make the docs (not too many) – share the docs – maintain the docs – ux dashboard make a [...]

keynote: karen mcgrane

“I would not have the professional success that I have today if it were not for this community [Drupal]” audio interfaces? yipes. (with the reminder that touchscreens used to be horrible) the return of the em vs i debate? (paging matt may: how’s that work out on screenreaders?) content strategy bingo: google glass digital signage…and [...]

content strategy the rpg

relly! lvl 1: easy fixes: we have 3 about pages! “I started orphaning pages from the nav.” “start self-assigning yourself stuff” “they weren’t telling their story” (pottery) page table: what’s the message? what’s the method? actually BETTER to do content audits manually rather than automagically…so that people FEEL the pain. I want to know more [...]

higher ed unconsortium

wondering if any of my colleagues are here. they’re going to BoF after this…but I want to go to Eaton’s talk. interesting…someone from UC Davis. met several ppl at the Cascade Server conf from UCD. CAS/LDAP integration, incl user fields messy, hasty pluralism

asset mgmt in d8

co-lead of scotch initiative assets = js, css asking how many ppl are using sass etc in d7, not much happiness tho. strange thing for me is that I haven’t done any theme dev (like, at all) in D7, so everything I know is D6 still. assetic is a php library, part of symphony (sp?) [...]