25 February 2010
Thursday evening’s roundup of news & treats:

- Putting users first? Sign of the Times: For Newspapers to Survive, They Must Put Users First (via FastCompany)
- GOOD concludes “Design Mind” series, which explored the power of design by the editors of design mind magazine (via GOOD)
- New York by typeface (via @quips and @kottke)
- Robots rule. This remarkable robot is culmination of two years of research and the collective expertise of 17 faculty members, undergraduates and doctoral students in the Human Robot Interaction Group (via NYT’s Bits Blog)
- Write much? How to Effectively write a design article (via @WDL)
- Arrive at your next conference via Jetpack. World’s FIRST commercial jetpack to goes on sale (via @HuffPostTech)
- Designing user interfaces for business web applications (via @smashingmag)
- And finally, a bit of housekeeping – Keir and everyone else will be back from FOWD Miami tomorrow, so thanks for your support this week!
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# Chrissie Brodigan (@tenaciouscb) is an online ux/product designer, Brooklynite, and pug lover/rescuer. She has been designing and developing web applications, content, and community strategy for about 10 years for clients that include: huffingtonpost.com, K-12 school systems, university education and marketing efforts with 2tor.com, innovators working in the field of education-inspired app development, and a series of wonderful and inspiring non-profits. More recently, she's also a design-focused contributor to Lithium, a lightweight, fast, flexible open source framework for PHP 5.3+.
Chrissie gets into how users respond to applications, and pours through metrics and translates actions into persona development, wireframes, codes comps, and loves to customize CMS workflows.
"We must dispense with what makes you like all the other girls and concentrate on what makes you different." The Diamond Age, By Neal Stephenson
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