This post started when my wife posted a childhood photo for a recent Throw-Back-Thursday. Not only is it impressive that her TBT was an actual hard copy photo instead of a digital relic from Facebook, but also that she could even track it down in the first place. Between the thousands of photos I’ve collected – and seemingly exponentially more each year – they’re becoming harder and harder to keep track of.
I suppose this is where I transition with some cliche stock photo right?
Earlier this week I posed a question:
Why do ecom sites make you pick the credit card type when they it’s embedded in the card number? Am I missing something or just bad UX?
— Jeff Steinke (@jeff_steinke) December 9, 2014
This post should have been written a few weeks ago…
With the travel-heavy Thanksgiving Holiday I couldn’t escape people talking about their plans to listen to Serial while on the road to visit friends & family.
Actually, if I’d waited just another week back in September I’d have had another podcast to add to my list. But now this post feels a little late to the (podcast listening) party.
Thanks to Pratik and the rest of the ATL Mobile Dev group for the opportunity to present Monday night. And thanks especially to the folks who actually braved the cold to make it out…well the relative cold we call it her in Atlanta.
#AtlMoDev @jeff_steinke doing an awesome preso on MAU pic.twitter.com/NPpETuGqKs
— pratik patel (@prpatel) November 18, 2014
I’ve been working on this new presentation and this was the first non-friends & family version.
I’ll embed the presentation from SlideShare below. Speaker notes aren’t up yet, but I suppose that means you’ll need to make it out to the next one in person!
Abstract – Congrats – you’ve released your app in the app store! You might’ve even already hit your first milestone of 1,000 – maybe even 10,000 downloads. But your MAU is a tiny fraction of that. And embarrassingly you don’t even know what a MAU is. Time to learn how to use mobile analytics to create engaged users through steps like better onboarding, lifecycle emails, a/b testing and more.
Slack: The app I can’t stop hearing about right now.
The buzz has come from my non-tech friends too, which is one of the best bellwethers to me indicating tremendous potential.
Recently I went to the grand opening of Polygon Atlanta, a new events space over at Atlantic Station. I say “events space” as Polygon is explicitly not (yet another) co-working space.
What better way to kick off a space for “Web, Tech & Creative Events” than with an intro by Jared Spool?
So Jared asks the question, “Is Design Metrically Opposed?”
Nope, it isn’t.
Well that was easy. Ok, yes there’s more to it…
Will the debate ever end?
If you’re a typical American phone consumer you’ve probably often asked yourself, “iPhone or Android?”
Recently some friends were discussing this and I wondered, “Is there a significant difference between the two anymore? Is there a worthwhile debate anymore? Should we still care?”
Here’s the thing – YES! – it absolutely does. However, in the debate between iPhones and Android phones it’s less and less about the phone itself. Here’s why.
In an interview last week the interviewee made an off hand comment that her current company is stringent on the hardware and software she’s allowed to use.
It’s a large organization with thousands of employees, which seems to be the norm for that type of company.
And I get it – there are some understandable reasons why a company would want this control:
I wonder, though, if her company has considered reasons why they wouldn’t want to control their employees’ tools so much.
She’s had to resort to PowerPoint for software wireframes. Seriously.
On the advice of Fred Wilson from AVC I picked up two new books this week:
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Product Design For The Web – Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products
Randy J. Hunt – Creative Director at Etsy |
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Talking to Humans – Success starts with understanding your customers
Giff Constable |
Podcasts are a large part of my daily life but I’ve never shared that here.
It’s been awhile since I regularly listened to FM (NPR aside).
Instead, I’ve replaced it with podcasts for my daily commute. They’re also a mentally stimulating time filler while working around the house or other busy-work projects.
Heck, I’m listening to an episode right now.
With that, this week I’m sharing the podcasts I regularly listen to.