Sarah Doody
I’m really interested in something that I call Personal Metrics – the idea that we can change our behavior and habits through measuring our behavior. Personal tracking is becoming very popular as new technologies and industrial design give way to new methods and devices that can track aspects of our lives.Continue reading
Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time on Medium, the new writing and publishing platform created by people including Ev Williams, among others. I love it because the simplicity of the interface helps me focus on the actual process of writing and not get distracted with playing with fonts, styles, sizes, and such.
One of my goals for 2013 is to write more. Continue reading
I look at my Google Analytics every single day. I find it so fascinating to see all the data, figure out what it means, and try to find interesting patterns. The other day, I did a comparison of site visitors versus bounce rate, and I had a moment of celebration because my bounce rates went from 46.5% to 1.90%Continue reading
If I were working at a start up right now, I would take a little time out and have my entire team watch this talk that Dan McKinley (@mcfunley) the Principal Engineer at Etsy gave about continuous experimentation. It reinforces a key lesson that is so simple, but so easily forgotten.
Hillman Curtis used to say that you have to “Eat your audience”. In saying that, I think he was trying to get people to really try hard to intimately know their user. I don’t know if he was trying to figuratively say that we should Continue reading
This week I was fortunate to attend a talk that Jason Goldberg (@betashop) gave about the story of Fab.com. It’s a story of ideas, failing, and doing what you love. Here’s what I learned.Continue reading
I’m sure you’ve experienced this many times, you’re in a meeting, someone is called on for input, and then they say “sorry, I was multitasking, can you repeat the question?”. Have you ever gone to the address bar of your browser and then drawn a blank of what URL you were going to type in? Continue reading
To start off 2013, I thought this video provided two very great lessons to keep in mind throughout the year. Too often, we let our results driven world influence us to give up when things don’t go how we envisioned, when things take longer than we thought, when plans don’t go our way. Continue reading
Constant connectivity. It’s a luxury that our culture is the first to have, yet our understanding of it’s impact is still so young. I’ve been thinking a lot about our tethered minds. Yes, we have access to more information than any society ever before. Yet, is our ability to consume that information declining? Continue reading
I wanted to share an article I recently wrote for UX Magazine, it’s called The Flâneur Approach to User Experience Design. The idea came to me while I was on a flight from London to NYC. I’d spent almost 3 weeks wandering around London and Paris without any agenda, simply exploring, observing,