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For Windows CE users, you can download the latest General Conference talks here. From my friend Joshua at LDSChinese.com.
posted by
gilbert
on Monday, Oct 15, 2007
John shared this link before about “Design for the Other 90%”. Here’s a short video from the New York Times about the same thing.
posted by
gilbert
on Monday, May 28, 2007
There are now 24 Interaction Designers working for the Church. Twenty four! Our group meeting yesterday was one of the rare times where everyone was there so we took this impromptu picture:
From left to right: Tim Zheng, Randy Hall, Aaron Cannon, Sam Grigg, Matt Miller, Todd Erickson, Ted Boren, Rob Foster, Pete Lasko, Tadd Giles (“Is that a lady shirt?”) Ben Willis, Derek Caswell, John Dilworth, Cameron Moll, Rob Thomas, Ray Davis, Paul Vaughn, Jason Lynes, Gilbert Lee, Kaleb Tracy (really short), Brian Sweeting, Chris Mayfield, Aaron Barker, Clifton Labrum (really short).
We’ve had a lot of new designers lately so let me introduce them here: Kaleb Tracy started at the beginning of the year. He hails from Michigan. He was a film student at BYU and is friends with Napoleon Dynamite and Jared Hess. It’s true. “I love technology…” Ray Davis was a consultant for us for about six months and we recently hired him full-time. He has some great stories of entrepreneurship that you need to hear someday. Pete Lasko started two months ago from a company here in Utah. We met him in one of our Tech Talks. He said he’s gonna bike to work from Heber sometime soon and still be on time for work. Did you hear that Jason? On time! Clifton Labrum started about a month ago from a company here in Salt Lake as well. Clifton is just always ready to spring to whatever. Super nice guy. Oh, and he blogs. (Clifton, are you ever going to forgive me about that first interview?) Sam Grigg started a couple of weeks ago. He is a recent grad of University of Utah. He said he has Barry Manilow in his iTunes. Did I remember that right?
Three new interns also started in the last two weeks. Aaron Cannon is studying Actuarial Sciences at the University of Iowa. He moved his family from Iowa to have his internship over here! He has been blind since birth and is here to kick our butt on accessibility of our web sites and web applications. He also said he wants a 30” monitor. Woot! Derek Caswell is studying at BYU and is here for the summer. He is our suspender guy :) Tim Zheng is a native of Hong Kong, China and is also studying at BYU. I’m definitely glad I have a co-Asian in the group. It’s like Rush Hour. He’s Jackie Chan and I’m Chris Tucker.
We also have two new hires who are coming in the next few weeks. Rick Moore from Salt Lake and Albert Candari who is moving from Hawaii! We can’t wait!
There are also a few freelancers that we work with on some of our projects. We hope someday they will join our team as well. They’re awesome.
To finish off, some additional information about our group:
- Eight people have been hired from out of state
- Two are really short (Kaleb and Clifton)
- Ten have blogs
- The group has about 63 kids total. 63!
- Five are studying (with two in graduate school)
- Two have worked at Microsoft
- Two are triathlon athletes
- One works out every single day
- One has a voice 20 octaves lower (is that even possible?)
- Half live north of Salt Lake, the other half live south, and another half live in Heber
- Most quoted movie by the group: Nacho “Get that corn outta my face!” Libre (Last year was Zoolander)
So anyweys…we are continually hiring Interaction Designers (associate, mid-level, and senior). If you think you got the chops, apply for our team and come join the fun. Peace out.
posted by
gilbert
on Wednesday, May 23, 2007
I love reading profiles. This one is about Mitt Romney.
posted by
gilbert
on Saturday, May 12, 2007
For John’s, Chris’, Gilbert’s and Pete’s wives: Scrapblog.
posted by
gilbert
on Monday, Apr 02, 2007
Tomorrow, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will gather and listen to President Hinckley and other general authorities of the Church. Like Ted said, it is quite a miracle to have a broadcast with over 60 languages. I was a translator for many years and to see all these people from around the world translating the words of the Prophets in their tongue is awe inspiring.
If you have a Mac, the streaming audio from the above link is not going to work unless you have this (free) plugin from Microsoft called Flip4Mac, which lets you play Windows Media files in your Quicktime player. I’ve downloaded it and tested it so I know it works :)
Alternatively, you can watch General Conference online from BYU.tv. This is actually how I watch it last time and it was great.
posted by
gilbert
on Friday, Mar 30, 2007
“I know the Pioneers had hard lives because they didn’t have computers and had only feathers and ink. If they made a mistake, they had to throw away the paper. And that’s a waste.”
My five-year old daughter telling me this out of the blue in the middle of the night as she asked for a drink of water
posted by
gilbert
on Tuesday, Mar 20, 2007
Naz Hamid from Weightshift designed the CMS application for the new AIGA.org site. Maybe we can do this with Vignette?
posted by
gilbert
on Tuesday, Mar 20, 2007
“In every company that I’ve ever seen that gets it right, it’s because someone WANTS to get it right. It’s not easy (if it were, everyone would do it) so the game goes to people who are willing to make sacrifices to do the hard work.”
Seth Godin from this Fireside chat
posted by
gilbert
on Monday, Jan 29, 2007
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
Steve Jobs, Business Week, May 25, 1998 (via)
posted by
gilbert
on Wednesday, Jan 10, 2007
“Simply, interaction designers manage complexity. They make things that are difficult seem easy, and things that are overwhelming seem fluid, and they create structures for cohesive, enjoyable, and even poetic experiences of use.”
Interview with Jon Kolko
posted by
gilbert
on Monday, Jan 08, 2007
“My tour guide explained that at Google the employees do not just sit in their offices all day—they walk around and visit each other. The environment and atmosphere seemed warm, welcoming and friendly.”
A high school student visiting Google offices in Seattle
posted by
gilbert
on Saturday, Jan 06, 2007
“The truth is simplicity can’t be determined by how few items are on a Web page. Simplicity, like most elements of design, needs to be evaluated in context.”
- LukeW, one of my favorite design thinkers
posted by
gilbert
on Wednesday, Dec 13, 2006
We’re happy to welcome Ben Willis as one of our newest Interaction Designers! Ben recently moved from Kansas City, Missouri working for Cerner as one of their application designers. We were very impressed with his portfolio and experience during our interviews with him. We’re excited to have him here. He is currently leading one of our projects and is doing excellent work. Welcome Ben!
posted by
gilbert
on Sunday, Dec 03, 2006
Our own designer Jason Lynes has just launched his newly designed personal site: CrowdCtrl. The man has talent! Seriously, I love the design! I suggest you look at the homepage carefully, 100-pixel height at a time. The details! It’s many, many hours of blood, sweat and tears (on Tadd’s shoulders). Nuff said, check it out.
One thing that is missing is a feed i-Khoi-n. Uh, hello!
(Jason, this is not a link like the one you gave me when I launched my site. It’s an article and you better note it down!)
posted by
gilbert
on Wednesday, Nov 01, 2006