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August's prompt - Crossover Episode - Earlier this month I visited my friend Peter in San Francisco.

July's prompt - City Hall - Not much more explanation needed.

June's prompt - Architect Highlight - Find a prolific architect from your area and go look at the different buildings they did.

June's prompt - Architect Highlight - Find a prolific architect from your area and go look at the different buildings they did.

April's prompt - New Park!

March's prompt - Palimpsest!

February's prompt - Historic Hotel: This months theme is historic hotel!

Flâneuring with the best of them

Someone please explain to me what a closure is!

Why are we calling these things hooks in React?

Heard of JSX but not really sure what it means?

Lessons from an interview problem I failed.

Tips and templates for preparing for a manager one-on-one meeting.

Since Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate I have been more hopeful and optimistic about politics than I have been in a long time.

2023 was my first year of blogging!

On November 16th, The New York Time's Daily Podcast released an episode about Biden's Electric Car Problem, and I have a problem with it!

ChatGPT with Vision is now available!

Games are fun.

Can AI help solve the 2 Sigma problem by making tutoring more accessible?

The final chapter of Steve Krug's Don't Make me Think!

Adding accessibility features to your website is a morally great thing to do!

AI can be scary smart sometimes.

It's important to make your site usable so people can use it.

The Feynman Technique is a famous learning by teaching method that can help improve student outcomes.

In less than six months ChatGPT has taken the world by storm.

Designing a website for mobile used to be very scary.

The Walton Family Foundation's survey of K-12 Educators revealed a dramatic (over 50%) adoption of the tool in classrooms within a few months.

Usability testing is the single most important thing you can do to improve your website's design.

Most UX arguments are a waste of time There are important UX discussions to be had, but make sure you can avoid discussions that aren't going anywhere and direct them in a good solution.

In this chapter, Krug argues that like the universe began in a few seconds with a big bang, a user's impression of a website is formed in a few seconds on the homepage as well.

On the internet we magically teleport from page to page.

Don't Make me Think Chapter 5 - Omit Words.

Today we take a look at Chapter 4 of Don't Make me Think, Krug's Second Law of Usability, "it doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice."

Is Machine Learning better than a human at predicting the winners of the Academy Awards?

This week we read Chapters 2 and 3 of Steve Krug's classic book on design, Don't Make me Think and discuss classic user behaviors and designing our sites like billboards to make them easier to scan.

Let's read and talk about the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Steve Krug's classic book on design, Don't Make me Think.

The first ever entry to Andrew's blogs, please enjoy!