Rob

Rob Fay

Washington, DC
38.890369, -77.03196
www.robfay.com

About: Rob Fay is a user experience architect making sense of an information age. He is passionate about the “I” in IT and strives to evangelize that information is a resource on equal footing with an organization’s human, financial, and physical resources.

Organization Blackboard Inc.
Your Current Industry e-Learning
Favorite Movie Quote "This job would be great if it wasn't for the %$#@ customers." -Clerks
Favorite Place You've Lived Fairfield, CT

Discussions

discussions

Island Queen Cruise Tonight (Sunday), Anyone?

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Anybody interested in seeing millionaire's row via cruise tonight? http://www.islandqueencruises.com/ Looks like $22 will give you a 90 minute t...

Blog Posts

blog posts

Changing Color by Time & Frequency

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I’ve been thinking of how color can be used by “fading” or “brightening” content elements and how CSS could be attach...

IA Summit 2008 Recap - A Week Later

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This was the second IA Summit that I’ve attended. Last year I took my wife. It was great because, as parents of twin toddlers, it was a wel...

Blackboard’s User-Centered Design

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One of my posts made it to the corporate blog. Tags: [Blackboard, Partial Recall, usability, interaction design, information architecture, ui, ux, ...

ACU To Go Foward With iPhone Application Development

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As a follow up to my previous post, Abilene Christian University announced that they will give iPhones or iPod touches to incoming freshman next ye...

A Vision of Ubiquitous Computing

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I know I am an Apple fanboy (still holding out for the 3G iPhone), but I was inspired by the vision put forth by Abilene Christian University. Her...

IxDA Presentations Online

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A bunch of videos and slides are popping up from the recent Interaction Design Association conference. This is a good way to get some free training...

Bookmarks:

Alltop - Top User Interface News

Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition

Protonotes

Protonotes are notes that you add to your prototype that allow project team members to discuss system functionality, design, and requirements directly on the prototype. You can think of it like a discussion board/wiki in direct context of your prototype.

Class is in Session: Teach The People Opens To The Public [TechCrunch - Nov 03, 2008]

Teach The People, a Facebook application and fbFund finalist that allows users to create learning communities, has launched to the public.

IBM Design

Design is vital to the success of most products and services. The visual and interaction design of the total user experience directly affects sales, service cost, productive use, customer loyalty, and almost every other aspect of doing business. IBM has had a long history of focusing on the design of our offerings and providing user experience design services to customers. The following sections outline our design principles and guidelines, the user experience design services we provide, the books we've written, and the ways you can contribute to the design of our offerings.

UX DesignCast

This podcast series hosted by Karel Vredenburg provides the latest information about trends, technologies, and insights regarding User Experience Design from the leading experts in the field. You can subscribe to the series using the links below. It is also available directly in the iTunes store. Please provide ratings and comments using the mechanisms provided.


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Comments

Agnieszka Skuczynska:

I second Becca's comment. It was great discussion! Do you have any suggestion for must-to-read article about Agile?

Becca Galfer:

Thanks, Rob. It was a good discussion at lunch. Might have inspired me to write a paper on UX+Agile in practice....

Cheers!