http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/ en-us Got a new feed - feed:http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/feed/ http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000375.html Finally another one of my projects goes public: instant messaging in Gmail. Here's some official coverage from the Google Blog and the Talk Blog. And here are a few blog posts that review the new feature in-depth — most of the press... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000374.html I'll be at the DUX conference for the next couple days. If you're there, look for me or drop me an email and we'll meet up.... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000373.html Jeff Howard, a recent CMU Interaction Design alumna and friend, just put together a set of Amazon Listmania booklists that cover the primary readings for the graduate program, along with a couple of selected courses. They're all good, but I... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000372.html Designers rarely get to work on their dream projects. When I was researching instant messaging in grad school, the prospect of designing a new instant messaging product was fanciful at best. When I came to Google, the odds improved a... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000371.html Guilty admission: I can't remember which of the Google founders is which. Terrible, I know, but true. Ever refer to a person by the wrong name? What a faux pas. I almost did it yesterday. I was in a meeting... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000370.html Oh how this city makes me proud. Burritoeater.com aims to be the Web's most complete source of information on San Francisco taquerias - where they're located, what they look like, if they're open late, whether they serve breakfast, what the... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000369.html I'm no hardcore type geek. I mean, I love my humanist sans serifs (Syntax, Scala Sans, you make my heart go pitter-patter), but like most designers for web and software, my daily world rarely extends beyond a few universally-installed regulars.... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000366.html I had to admit a tiny ping of melancholy when Molly mentioned that she was heading to the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium. The irony here is that I'm up here in Seattle right now, working with engineers in our Kirkland... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000365.html Last weekend I got coffee with a businessperson who was looking to move into interaction design. Shocking, I know, but also a good sign. He asked for a good resources to get started. In the past I've given people... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000364.html Going through old unpublished blog posts and found this story from a year and a half ago: Just before I left Pittsburgh for the summer, a co-worker friend came over to my house to record some voice-overs (my place was... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000198.html Comments are back. I had a bad case of the comment spam and forgot to re-enable them. Thanks. Also, after too long just admiring the brilliance that is del.icio.us, I've started occasionally posting. If I keep up, I may do... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000363.html I loved seeing this in the sidebar of someone's weblog. Sure, it definitely has elements of a popularity contest, but it also contributes to that sense of mutual awareness that's so lacking in weblogs. I have a vague sense... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000362.html Microsoft just launched a new recruiting site focused on hiring designers of all stripes. It's well done: informative, looks good, and plays up Microsoft as a company where designers are well-regarded and design is a core part of the product... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000361.html 43 Things keeps information design at a basic, yet charming level to show what things are most popular on others' lists - the typeface just gets bigger. The social dynamics are simple and effective: personal wishes are shared with a... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000360.html This morning I tried out the Google offering-du-jour: Google Scholar. For the past couple years I've used CiteSeer when doing research. It goes one crucial step further than Google Scholar in that it offers a page that lists the abstract,... http://www.brightlycoloredfood.com/archives/000359.html