Jeffrey Veen

Business

  • Adaptive Path is looking for a CEO
  • Getting Satisfied
  • Smart people are making cool things
  • Blogging as open source fact checking
  • The bubble is back!
  • Values and client work
  • Cycling

  • Bicycle racing and data overlays
  • The Tour de France and Long Tail Sports
  • How pleasant life would be...
  • Things to watch for on a winter bike ride
  • 2006 Tour de France route announced
  • Another introduction to the Tour
  • The drama of the Tour
  • Figuring out Ebay
  • Close the streets, it's time to ride
  • Bikes and Horses
  • Riding For A Reason
  • A Spring Classic
  • Il Pirata
  • Who was that guy?
  • At Least I've Got Brakes
  • Share the Road?
  • 15 Seconds of Fame
  • Ulrich goes down, Armstrong takes the Tour
  • Bikequeers
  • xHTML Strict, PDX, Pillars, and Pavement
  • Le Tour de la Douleur
  • On Pain and Cycling
  • "Kivilev is down"
  • "Dop-AY!" ... Well, actually, no.
  • +2 Strength, +4 Constitution
  • Sweating on the Couch
  • Design in the land down under
  • Information Architecture

  • Content Migration made easy
  • Tagging in Mail.app
  • Two in the morning, Montréal
  • Size Matters: Rendering a Folksonomy
  • Happy Birthday VisVocab
  • Maps and Numbers
  • Lies and Statistics
  • IA Jargon Watch
  • Talking About the Elements of User Experience
  • On Structure and Reuse
  • The Psychology of Navigation
  • Make Them Do All The Work
  • More Praise For Jesse's Book
  • But what do facets look like?
  • The User Experience of URLs
  • Personal

  • Announcing Wikirank: Tracking what's popular on Wikipedia
  • Conference hack: Embracing the backchannel at Start
  • Stories we'll hear at the Start Conference
  • Introducing the Start Conference
  • Welcome back Webmonkey
  • Leaving Google
  • At South by Southwest
  • Indi Young's new book: "Mental Models"
  • Join me at the Heather Gold Show
  • The record and the bet, part 2
  • Getting Satisfied
  • The record and the bet
  • Google Analytics updated
  • What I've been working on: The New Google Analytics
  • The Merlin Show
  • Zeldman vs. Mii
  • Remembering Zork
  • Designing Google Reader's trends
  • My favorite posts in 2006
  • The state of the web, or something...
  • People writing on the web
  • Crafting the perfect espresso
  • Shooting the kids
  • Measure Map sold to Google
  • Things to watch for on a winter bike ride
  • And we're back...
  • Clay Mankin, 1955-2005
  • Drafts: What's in your folder of shame?
  • Welcome to the world, you're now connected
  • So much news...
  • Blood work
  • Figuring out Ebay
  • The Art and Science of Web Design turns 5
  • The Big One
  • Congratulations
  • The President comes to my alma mater
  • Musical Baton
  • So easy even a web designer can use it
  • Why I am no longer growing a beard
  • Fire in the Redwoods
  • Two in the morning, Montréal
  • How did you get your job?
  • Dot Com Redux?
  • Getting Over Archiving
  • Fight for your right to photograph busses
  • Spinning to d0wn10adz
  • The Comic Experience
  • Meetups for Macworld
  • What next? Atkins DVD player?
  • My Whole Life in Happy Little Folders
  • It's An Emotional Day Here
  • Super Sticky
  • Fourty Years Ago and Still Rings True
  • Peter Hughes and the Five Tools
  • You Have 0 Minutes of Charge Remaining
  • Where there is suffering, there are dollers to be had
  • A Bird in the Hand
  • The Folly of Youth
  • What Would Jesus Eat?
  • Driving the Next First Lady
  • The Privacy of Prayer
  • How I stopped buying CDs and started loving music
  • Mike Moves On
  • It's A Living
  • Goodbye Webmonkey
  • "Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of"
  • Seven Steps to Better Presentations
  • Random, mid-day instant message
  • To The Left or To The Right?
  • Music For Each Other
  • Can You Hear Me Now?
  • Free Beer!
  • The Not-So-Golden State
  • The Lowly Apostrophe
  • Badgers and Mushrooms
  • The Smell of My Youth
  • My Fading Interest in Fashion
  • That was then...
  • New Metric
  • Pleated pants were never a good idea
  • An Invitation to the Dance
  • On Knot Tying
  • Dream Job
  • Looking for a good home
  • Run Leslie Run
  • Software

  • Google Analytics updated
  • Microsoft and Feed Reading
  • People use software they like
  • Iterating features and getting them right
  • The Web 2.0 Checklist
  • Polar Heart Rate Monitors: Gimme my data!
  • Invitation Nation: Getting into all the new Web apps
  • Tagging in Mail.app
  • Collaborating at conferences
  • Safari Update
  • More on Flash MX
  • Hiding CSS Bugs
  • Flash MX and Accessibility
  • Mac Update: Web Development
  • Technology

  • Announcing Wikirank: Tracking what's popular on Wikipedia
  • Robot Cross Stitch
  • Obama: Open formats for government data
  • Charmr: Solving human problems with design
  • Fixing the Web
  • Bicycle racing and data overlays
  • Data can be funny
  • Microsoft and Feed Reading
  • Blog reactions
  • Blogging as open source fact checking
  • Social Security
  • The Tour de France and Long Tail Sports
  • Is Ajax ready for prime time?
  • rm -r *
  • JJG gets a Rave
  • Jimmy Wales: Steak Knives and Human Knowledge
  • Measure Map sold to Google
  • Ethical Blogging (or, I think you should buy this t-shirt)
  • San Francisco Web Innovators Group
  • Database Journalism
  • The Web 2.0 Checklist
  • Polar Heart Rate Monitors: Gimme my data!
  • Invitation Nation: Getting into all the new Web apps
  • Welcome to Measure Map
  • Web Essentials '05: Bringing a Web conference to the Web
  • Give up control
  • Who will build Web 2.0?
  • Collaborating at conferences
  • So much news...
  • Is anyone listening? WiFi and the new ADD
  • Change your email address in 13 simple steps
  • Tag clouds and cynical bloggers
  • When to talk, when to work
  • So easy even a web designer can use it
  • Disposable Feeds
  • Google is watching
  • Continuing the conversation
  • Bruce Sterling and the new virtual
  • Newer isn't better by default.
  • Doing it first versus doing it right
  • Dot Com Redux?
  • Getting Over Archiving
  • Make Magazine: Dangerous and Illegal?
  • Hand-made Shuffle Case
  • Ad Blocking in RSS
  • Death By AutoContent
  • Case Study: Intranets, Usability, and Value
  • What do these pictures have in common?
  • Millionaires Making People Smile
  • Making A Better Open Source CMS
  • Understanding Content Management
  • You Have 0 Minutes of Charge Remaining
  • The Democratization of Publishing
  • What is a hack, really?
  • The Right Tool For the Job
  • Search Doesn't Have To Suck
  • User Experience is More Than Design
  • Damage in Web Design
  • Learning From the Apple Store
  • MP3 Blogs and wget
  • Why APIs Are So Cool
  • Leave the Hard Stuff to Someone Else
  • The Waiting is the Hardest Part
  • Working With Blogger is Fun
  • Managing Content is Hard
  • Will you be my friend?
  • Panel Back Channel
  • The Rules of Unix
  • Stating the Obvious
  • WalMart Doesn't Trust You
  • Publishing Links With Perl
  • Playing With Links
  • Simple Tools, Loosely Joined
  • Things Get Smart
  • Turning Up the Heat on Standards
  • Say Cheese...
  • Lick Me, I'm a Macintosh
  • More Clear, Concise Instructions
  • The Poetry of Project Management
  • Why the Telecom Industry Will Fail (part 1)
  • Gold Finger?
  • My Mac Milestones
  • Sensory Augmentation
  • Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive
  • It's an accessible day in the neighborhood...
  • Gigs from Mars
  • You can never be too thin...
  • Going Mobile
  • dot.protest
  • Switched
  • Creative Commons
  • Blogs are from ... Venus?
  • Travel

  • Who is John Snow?
  • Idea Conference 2006
  • September conferences
  • Adaptive Path's UX Week 2006
  • @Media in London
  • Austin-bound
  • Web Essentials '05: Bringing a Web conference to the Web
  • Wow! Fiji!
  • Show and tell
  • A tough day in the friendly skies, pt. 2
  • A tough day in the friendly skies
  • Skip Always
  • Burning Time
  • IA in Amsterdam
  • Porkchops
  • That's why it's a swing state
  • Geeks Gone Wild
  • Around the World in 35 Years
  • At Least The Cacti Are Pretty
  • Flying the Cramped Skies
  • Seeing Between the Lines
  • Adam's Cab
  • Overheard
  • Just ask for Jim
  • Up To Date
  • Things to do in Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Buying Shoes in Portland
  • More from Italy
  • Vivendo la vita facile
  • Summertime
  • A Contrast in Urban Design
  • On the trail to Minneapolis
  • New Orleans: 4 days, 40k calories
  • San Antonio
  • Back From the Desert
  • Welcome Home
  • Off to Chicago...
  • UX in Washington DC
  • Wireless in SF
  • Web Design

  • Video: Designing for Big Data
  • Indi Young's new book: "Mental Models"
  • Fixing the Web
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark and the mystery of inspiration
  • Google Analytics updated
  • Vote! Which international sporting event logo is the worst?
  • What I've been working on: The New Google Analytics
  • The Merlin Show
  • Chatting with Irene Au
  • Amateurs into experts
  • Designing Google Reader's trends
  • Five steps to a better design portfolio
  • The state of the web, or something...
  • Smart people are making cool things
  • Interview with Brian Oberkirch
  • The bubble is back!
  • Making location simple
  • Designing for all users
  • Is Ajax ready for prime time?
  • Interview: Fireside chat with 37signals
  • Looking back at Hotwired
  • Intellectual Bargain Shopping
  • Adaptive Path's UX Week 2006
  • Designing the Friendly Skies
  • People writing on the web
  • JJG gets a Rave
  • Podcast: The Web 2.0 Show
  • As easy as 1, 2, 3
  • Podcast: Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps
  • The Rhythm of Blogging
  • Austin-bound
  • Web Design in a Nutshell, v3.0
  • Iterating features and getting them right
  • The Art of the Incremental Redesign
  • Linking to feeds: Another approach
  • Banana Republic designs for Web 1.0
  • Give up control
  • Who will build Web 2.0?
  • You'll use Verdana, and you'll be happy
  • The Art and Science of Web Design turns 5
  • Designing for the subtlety of Ajax
  • The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds
  • Don't Screw Up
  • Blinking Out Design
  • State-of-the-art interactivity?
  • Try before you buy
  • Google Maps in Safari
  • Scrubbing Innovation into Interaction: Ajax
  • Six Apart Redesigns
  • Size Matters: Rendering a Folksonomy
  • If it works for them...
  • The Do-It-Yourself Portfolio
  • Be Less Specific
  • Skip Always
  • Evolving Our Tools
  • Creative Commons Launches
  • Super Sticky
  • Designing like it's 1996
  • Dreadful Usability as Marketing Tool
  • Newspapers Don't Have To Suck
  • Why Bother With User Centered Design?
  • Technorati Redux
  • The Perfect Advice
  • Useless Usability
  • Editorial vs. Advertising
  • Can't We Just Make Stuff Simpler?
  • The Frontier of User Experience
  • I don't care about accessibility.
  • The Appearance of Competency
  • Stop Stealing Gas (and other design techniques)
  • BayCHI and UX Business
  • Politics and the Web
  • The Value of Experience
  • Patterns & Facets
  • Kevin's Flowers
  • The Business Value of Web Standards
  • On Writing Short
  • Redesigning
  • Unfit for Human Consumption?
  • Didactic Presentation
  • Communicating through design
  • Sort of like 'Shutdown' on the 'Start' menu
  • What is interaction, anyway?
  • Back to Backgrounds
  • Finding Good Subjects
  • Getting Started in the Industry
  • More on chartjunk and the CPU Monitor
  • El Futuro de la Web en Chile
  • Chartjunk
  • Good Code Cache
  • Deconstructing Dessertexperts.com
  • DesignWhys by Eric Eaton
  • Prototyping a Vision
  • Getting Good Help
  • Doug Bowman On Designing Wired News
  • Wired News Gets Religion
  • Defining What We Do
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    About Me

    Bio: Jeffrey Veen
    Book: "The Art & Science of Web Design"
    Book: "HotWired Style: Principles For Building Smart Web Sites"
    Work: Adaptive Path
    Travel: Tuscany
    Travel: Kayaking in Baja
    Travel: Touring Costa Rica
    Travel: Studying Theater in London
    See Also: 10 years

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