Digital Geographer, LLC

07/03/2017

Nice summary of a favorite technique for getting past the internal barriers to user-centered experience.
https://youtu.be/TbEfjaE94sU

Card sorting helps you understand how to organize offerings so people who know what you have and where to find it. Even afternoon tea requires...

07/03/2017

User experience design means talking to actual users. https://twitter.com/JillianDavid13/status/881844097505538048

“Focus group. This could have been avoided with 1 focus group (of women).”

06/27/2017

Just like any usergroup, senior citizens, require design experiences that reflect their needs, particularly to overcome limitations that can come with age

07/16/2016

Console usability . . .

Few years later it would be just a half inch thick holographic monitor plus voice command and has an interactive AI. SciFi will be a reality soon

04/11/2016

My special gift is being on the cutting edge of the next big hotness. http://ow.ly/10xyWL

No one cares about your marketing goals. But everyone likes a good story.

02/16/2016

Well, golly. Who knew?

If there’s one thing that everyone agrees is attractive, it’s young men. Unfortunately, young men are so obnoxious that no one can bear to spend time in their company. That’s why our best bet is to...

12/13/2015

Paris, in color, over 100 years ago.

In 1903, the Lumiere brothers from France patented the first color photography process known as Autochrome Lumiere. Despite the availability of this technology, most people continued taking photos in black and white. In 1909, a wealthy French banker by the name Albert Kahn decided he was sic...

11/11/2015

Postmaster ransom demands apparently didn't work too well . . .

The 300-year-old linen-lined trunk is filled with over 2,600 letters that were mailed out—but never received—between the years 1680 and 1706. Historians are now taking a closer look.

10/12/2015

Wow

The photos taken by Farm Security Administration photographers in the 1930s are some of the most iconic images in American history. We’re all familiar with some of the snapshots of craggy-faced farmers, but unseen photos in government archives tell a more complex story of a struggling country. Yale…

09/16/2015

Storytelling matters. And always has . . .

Distinctive ‘cross-checking’ tradition helps explain extraordinary accuracy in 21 stories about dramatic sea level rises between 7,000 and 18,000 years ago

09/14/2015

Cue the suspenseful music . . .

The inhabitants of Collooney – a small town in Northern Ireland – made a shocking discovery after a violent storm ripped through the area. A 200-year-old beech tree toppled over, revealing what could be a medieval murder scene. While it’s not uncommon for storms to uproot trees, it’s not every day o…

09/02/2015

The mysterious language no one can decipher helps with the cool factor of the whole story.

A mysterious wooden statue, extracted from a peat bog in Eastern Russia in the 19th century, has been dated back 11,000 years by a team of German scientists this week, making what was already the world’s oldest wooden carving even older.