User Empowerment and the Fun Factor (Alertbox July 2002) is poetry:

"Once we achieve ease of use, we'll need additional usability methods to further strengthen joy of use. "

Say it with me:

"strengthen joy of use"

I'm trying out trackback. anyone else using it?

(and yes, I'm writing, I just took a half hour break. sheesh.)

I love:

Dan Brown. I mean, never mind the great deliverables articles that have been on B&A, his portfolio is just lovely and thoughtful.

I hate:

scented garbage bags. Who are you trying to fool?

My latestest entry in the favorite slim book category is Rapid Problem Solving With Post-It Notes. While it is aimed at business types solving business problems, its application to designing content architecture is readily apparent. It's very simple, can be read in about an hour, and is a wonderful way to expand your diagramic vocabulary.

Still mired in chapter 9, which is starting to be a damn encyclopedia of diagramming. And I haven't even touched the range of posibilities out there. Well, I'm cutting myself off, as soon as I finish affinity diagrams and user flows.

I have to pause every so often and touch the world. This is my third day of all-day writing.

Re-reading Textism » An Annotated Manifesto for Growth, thanks to the antman, and this hit me where I live:

"18 Stay up late. Strange things happen when you've gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world. "

"Translation: the best work is done, the most inspiration comes, from the only real muse: Fear. Especially the fear of what's due in the morning. "

My 100% date is monday. I still have one more chapter to write.

pray for me.