Data, Demographics, and User Personas

Personas also bring issues of social and political consciousness to the forefront. — About…

Book Review: Making Ideas Happen

“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” — Thomas Edison

TL;DR

In Making Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky (CEO & Founder of Behance) discusses the methods for how the creative mind can overcome the…

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

When I first learned javascript, I mainly used the jQuery library for small interactions (select something/do something) and adding very basic behavior to the websites I worked on. At the time, it was no big deal to just throw all of my simple jQuery methods and…

Texas JavaScript 2013

I was very happy to have the opportunity to check out the Texas JavaScript 2013 conference while I was back home in Austin, visiting with family. There were some really good speakers, and while some have complained about the lack of focused talks, I enjoyed the diversity of topics at this…