Archive for May, 2010

A lot of people have recently asked me a variant of the following questions… What does it take to grow from a junior to a senior position?   How do I become more valuable? While every type of position (development, marketing, sales, etc) has it’s own set of hurdles you’ll have to overcome I think there [...]

05/06/2010

For several reasons I’ve been thinking about employee motivation recently and had an encounter at Target I wanted to share… My mother was in town and she had her heart set on a new Netbook (no fancy iPad for her).  We decided to go to Target to check them out. While we were loitering around [...]

The usage of user personas as they are built today has to stop.  If you aren’t familiar with the concept that was developed in the mid-90’s…. “Personas are fictional characters created to represent the different user types within a targeted demographic, attitude and/or behaviour set that might use a site, brand or product in a [...]