Evan Carroll

Who Will Check My Email After I Die?

Evan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:33:04 +0000

Capstrat submitted several ideas to the SXSW Interactive conference next March. I’m the contact for our panel idea called “Who WIll Check My Email AfterI Die?“ Here’s the description for the panel:

Ever wondered what will happen to your digital existence after you die? E-mail, domain names, social networking content - do you want to leave it behind, “bequeath” it, or delete it? This in-depth discussion will provide technical, philosophical and legal insights on how to articulate your final online wishes.

If you’re interested, please head over to the SXSW Panel Picker and give us a vote. There’s lots of other great ideas out there, so you should take a look at those as well.

You might also want to check out some articles on the topic over at the Capstrat blog:

Social Networking Post Mortem

Virtual Imortality: the digital afterlife

Quotes

Evan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:49:26 +0000

I’ve been thinking lately about design and universal principles that I should apply to both my ux designs and the process surrounding their creation. I’ve come across a handful of quotes that illustrates a few good ideas that i would like to capture. I’m going to list a few of my ideas and the quotes behind them. Think of these as candidate principles or guidelines for the final list.

It’s free to think, so do it a lot.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Linus Pauling

Keep it as simple as it can be without being simpler than it should be.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. - John Maeda

Consider the entire product experience.

The experience is the product. - Brandon Schauer (with autograph in the cover of “Subject to Change”)

That’s all I have on my list for now. Any suggestions for candidate principles or supporting quotes.

UXIntensive Photos

Evan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:31:26 +0000

I found a few pictures of me on Flickr taken during the UXIntensive workshop I attended last week. Here I am talking about using comic strips to help achieve stakeholder buy-in. Good thing I payed attention when we talked about it at Capstrat.

Here’s another of me presenting our group’s visualization of the hotel check-in process. I like this diagram because it indicates time and user satisfaction at a glance while maintaining fine-grained details in the post-it notes.

Lastly here’s one of us making the above diagram.

UXIntensive

Evan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:02:49 +0000

I’m in Minneapolis this week for Adaptive Path’s UXIntensive workshop. Things here will get ramped up tomorrow with an all-day session on design research. I’m looking forward to that and all of the other sessions and social events. I plan to write a blog article each day over on the Field Notes, the Capstrat blog. Be sure to check it out at:

http://blog.capstrat.com/authors/evan-carroll/

Triangle Tweetup at Capstrat

Evan — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:49:23 +0000

Capstrat recently hosted Triangle Tweetup 2.0, a gathering of Triangle residents who use the popular social networking service, Twitter. Twitter is a service that allows users to stay in contact with one another by sending short answers to the question, “What are you doing?” Nearly seventy people attended the event and highlights included a demo of the video conversation network, Seesmic (http://www.seesmic.com ), a demo of Twitter Movie Reviews (http://jazzychad.com/twitter/movies ), and a happy hour at Capstrat’s media bar. Here’s a photo of the assembly, but there’s many more available Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/triangletweetup).