Defeat is Another Opportunity To Practice Being Prepared
I am not a flawless Creator. The last time I threw my life a curve on purpose was in 1994. Unlike a baseball pitcher practicing how to toss a curve ball, this life decision had no practice runs. I had...
View ArticleOur Victories Never End
I took a selfie picture of myself on International Women’s day. Actually, there were at least five of them. One of them won. On that day, two friends noted me as a woman they admire. One of them said...
View ArticleWhat I Learned From the Job I Didn’t Get
For five weeks I put all client work on hold, went food and sleep deprived, and put on my Jessica Jones shoes and Super Woman mind-set to chase a job that was out of my reach. Nevertheless, I pursued...
View ArticleConvincing Engineers on the Need for Accessibility
I was asked this question. “How would you convince 90 engineers to incorporate accessibility in with design and development?” I had to admit that despite the ideas popping into my mind, I didn’t have...
View ArticleThe Little Website That Could
On May 25 I pack up Cre8asiteforums, turn off the lights and walk away from an online community I started in 1998 to share how-to information on what was then called “website promotion.” I feel so many...
View ArticleHuman Behavior and Data: The Performance of Trees
In a park anywhere where there are trees is a tree I’ll call Tree. One day Tree thought how nice it might be to check its performance as a tree. So it counted up its branches and leaves to see how many...
View Article“But It’s Not Broken” and Why I Love Website Usability Testing
Automation and organic gardening have been on my mind, and so has just about everything else, while I create content maps for a manual usability testing job for a client. The painstaking process of...
View ArticleWebsite Visitors are Not Prey
You may not be consciously aware that each time you visit a website your natural human instincts haven’t suddenly checked out. You’re still in fight or flight mode. How we interact with the places we...
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