Category: Writing

  • Reflections on Twenty Years of Blogging

    A series of reflections on how this blog has evolved over years coinciding with my personal and professional evolution.

  • eBook on User Research from Optimal Workshop

    A contribution to Optimal Workshop’s ebook on conducting great user interviews, focused on facilitating remote and mixed-mode research sessions effectively.

  • Recent Publications

    I have recently had the opportunity to be published by both SitePoint and Boxes and Arrows.

  • Review of SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design

    With each new SharePoint version we are given lots of new books. In this article I review SharePoint 2013 Branding and User Interface Design. Despite some omissions, it is a good reference for all SharePoint designers.

  • A New Blog and Published Articles

    Launching a new blog dedicated to SharePoint’s experience oddities, plus two published articles on enterprise keywords and making search not suck.

  • A Quote On Typography

    Jon Tangerine nails what good typography really does: it makes the canvas fit the meaning of the text, not the other way around.

  • WordPress Plugins for Writers

    For the WordPress users who want their blog to read like a print journal rather than a blog. The plugins I found for footnotes, pull-quotes and the rest of a writer’s typography.

  • The Online Office Journey

    I was tired of emailing documents between computers, so I went looking for an office suite that lives in a browser. What I found in Zoho and Think Free, and where each one let me down.

  • The Need For Substantive and Well-Written Blog Content

    Bloggers spend enormous effort on hits and comments while neglecting the one thing that separates a good blog from a bad one. Tips on content, from syndication through structure.

  • Brevity and the Blogger

    I am guilty of the cardinal blogging sin of writing too much. A short piece on why readers scan rather than read, and what that should do to the way we write posts.