With SXSW right around the corner I think it’s time to dust off ye olde blog. We’ve been through some rough times around here the past couple of years, from losing my original domain at xinroman.com to almost losing the second one (turns out that the customer service people at GoDaddy are actually extremely helpful [...]
I’ve been so busy scouring the internets for posts that I almost forgot to post about this myself! The site is for IRO Cycle, which we just launched last week. First the back story…. IRO makes fixed gear bikes, which, if you lived in Williamsburg (like I do), the Lower East Side, or the Mission [...]
An interesting side effect of being a user experience designer is having a hightened awareness of your own work process. I often find myself, for better or worse, thinking not only about the work that I’m doing, but about how I am actually doing it. On a project-wide scale we generally think about our tasks [...]
Seriously. One of the nicest, simplest UI’s I’ve seen in awhile. For your updates on all things Christin visit xinroman.tumblr.com. If that’s more than you can handle then just stick with me here. The tumblr UI has really led me to rethink my feelings on the whole “lifestreaming” trend (a trend that, like most among [...]
It’s my first “employee outing” at a new part-time web/tech start-up gig, and we’re on our way to an evening of obscure microbrewery beers and nostalgic button punching at <a href="http://www.barcadebrooklyn.com/">Barcade</a>, when my boss’s wife gets hit hard by an 8 1/2 month pregnancy-induced burger craving. Having been a vegetarian for the last 14 years [...]
Amsterdam & Picnic 07 2007-09-29 10:54:25 So I’m in Amsterdam at this festival called <a href="http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/5586/en">Picnic</a>. It is very corporate and very heavily-sponsored…but also incredibily well-organized and just, well, beautiful! As far as conferences go. There was definitely some extra effort put into making sure the food is good, the setting is lovely, the tech [...]
…And I only bring up 9/11 at all because a) I coincidentally happened to just finish re-reading David Foster Wallace’s “The View From Mrs. Thompson’s” today, b) I am extrememly disappointed in how The Events Of are still hanging over this country as we are determined to allow the most ridiculous security measures be taken [...]
I presented my thesis project to ITP, my mom, and the world on Monday evening, two days following the semi-final round of the Stern Business Plan Competition, where we learned that, while we have a kick-ass business plan, an excellent presentation, and a damn good team of very capable founders who know what they’re doing, [...]
So, it’s decided, I’m writing letters for people – you type and submit a letter online, including some instructions for how you want the letter to be written, and then I personally write and post it (as in, send it by post). It’s time to start putting together the actual site (it’s pretty barebones right [...]