Category: Books
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Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love
Long time since a book review, eh? I might get back to it. I make tons of highlights when e-reading that I never get back to/review and therefore I get little out of. Recalling my school days, rereading my notes one extra time made them sink in way better – this is more for me than you. Background: I moved from QA to Product…
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Book Review: Lean UX
Work book review! I grabbed this one for its relevance to what we’re currently working through. It builds upon the principals from Lean Startup, which I haven’t yet read. In hindsight, I probably should have read that first, but this book stands up pretty well on its own. Who would I recommend it to? Anyone with their hand in UI/UX design, which should be…
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Book Review: Exploratory Software Testing
I’d heard of the subject before, vaguely knew some things about it, thought it was the type of testing I had naturally evolved to, and vowed to really find out by reading Exploratory Software Testing by James A. Whittaker. As it turns out, my weak understanding was mostly wrong. The entire strategy is based upon testing “tour” metaphors that can be visualized by thinking…
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Book Review: Don’t Make Me Think – A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
A book review? Yeah, sure, kinda. I tend to highlight the crap out of professional books that I read. I rarely go back and look at the highlights so this exercise is as much for me as it is for you. Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Not yet released. This is the one you want. My only…
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To Instapaper and Back Again [to Read It Later]
Do people send you links for which you have no time to read? Surely, at some point you do find the time to get to them, but without a means to save those links, you’ll have to go find them again. Enter the realm of “Reader” apps. At the top of the food chain are Read It Later (RIL), and Instapaper (IP). There are…
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Book: Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began
Picked up and put down the second part of this graphic novel in two days last week. As with most sequels, I didn’t care for it as much as the first. Interestingly, I’m in the minority there (it gets better reviews from the public). A solid closing to the story. In producing this painfully honest story of his father’s life, Art Spiegelman has done…