Sunday, October 11, 2009

Geek Salad meets Tue Oct 13 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Do you need to make a visual presentation?
See if your slides or visuals pass "The Glance Test".

http://blog.duarte.com/2009/10/stanford-passed-and-failed-the-glance-test-would-you/

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See you Tuesday AM.
I'll need to leave a little early.

Jeff Belden
Geek Salad | Tossing Ideas Around

Friday, September 25, 2009

Geek Salad meets on Tue Sep 29 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Your call is very important to us…

Like most humans I know, I hate hearing this.

Now, there is an effective cure!

 

Fonolo!

Nice business model, offering a web plug-in for businesses.

Individual user-customers still get free service.

 

See you Tuesday.

We appreciate your patience. The expected wait time is approximately …86 hours.

 

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Geek Salad meets this Tue Sep 15 from 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Good Design Faster: “Sketch-Boards” and “Design Sprints”
I need to stop linking to podcasts, since most of us don’t have time to listen to one if it’s not already automatically going to our iPods.
I couldn’t resist. Here’s a link to the show notes:
http://bit.ly/spoolfast

I’ve started using Posterous.com for our Geek Salad blog postings.
It handles images better.

See you Tuesday.



How can we explore a range of solutions before diving into a single solution? Wireframes are very useful to the process, but instead, we should consider delaying them. Before wireframes, Leah suggests a very open, cross-team exploratory stage. Invite people from across your organization and even collaborate with those who might not normally be within the core design group.

Leah suggests a week-long ‘design sprint’ that begins with a group brainstorming meeting in the morning with lots of people… and everyone’s opinions count. Then that afternoon, the group sketches out a large number of low-fidelity sketches further exploring the experience they’re looking to design, based on the morning’s activities. Sketching many iterations based on different perspectives like, ‘how would we optimize this for a first-time user?’ ‘how about for a power-user?’ ‘how about for this demographic?’

Then the week-long process continues...

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Steve Mays showed us some online tool he likes/uses/recommends

Steve Mays posted some cool things he likes here:
http://smays.posterous.com/demo-for-geek-salad




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Friday, August 28, 2009

Geek Salad meets Tue Sep 1 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

My friend Steve Mays works for Learfield Communications in Jefferson City will present for 20 minutes or so on “Having fun trying new things”.

 

Steve has the enviable job (IMHO) of evaluating new technologies for his organization. And he’s effective and productive!

He holds court at the Coffee Zone in Jefferson City on High Street most AMs (see below in his natural habitat).

One of my favorite people to follow on Twitter.

 

If you want to stalk him beforehand:

·         Podcast – Living Healthy Podcast - with Henry Domke MD

·         Blogs – www.smays.com, Politix.com, and more

·         Twitter - @smaysdotcom

·         And more… (vimeo, flickr, YouTube…)

 

 

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Know an artist good with pen and pencil?

I’d like to meet someone with great drawing skills to collaborate (for pay) on some software design projects.

I have a storyboard about “interruptions in clinic” I sketched clumsily that might be the first project.

 

Can you send me a lead, or invite them to Geek Salad some day?

Thanks.

 

Jeff Belden MD

beldenj@health.missouri.edu

573-489-4206 m


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at Kaldi's Coffee on 9th and Cherry

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Geek Salad meets Tue Aug 18 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

This week, Jamie Stephens of Bookd.com will show us his work as a local software entrepreneur.

Jason Cafer MD invited Jamie for us.

Discussion makes up most of the hour.

Bring your curiosity.

 

We added two new names to the Geek Salad mailing list:

·         Brian Ching MD, a first year Family Medicine Resident

·         Annette Sobel MD MS, Asst to the Provost and Asst to the Vice President UMC

 

 

Jeff Belden MD  |  beldenj@health.missouri.edu  |  573-489-4206 m
Geek Salad | Tossing Ideas Around

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at Kaldi's Coffee on 9th and Cherry

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