http://www.uiweb.com Extra fine essays and advice on project management, design and usability - By Scott Berkun en-us http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay39.htm An approach for getting the most from a 60 minute interview. http://www.scottberkun.com/ Same fine essays, same low price (free) - now over here. http://www.scottberkun.com/books/artofpm/ The new book from O'Reilly on how to lead and manage software development, from a ten year Microsoft veteran. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue38.htm How do you convince other people to do things? Especially big expensive things? Here's a short primer on how to pitch ideas and concepts to other people. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue37.htm One of the former designers of Internet Explorer provides a rough guide for the construction and design of better web browsers. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue36.htm All kinds of silly things happen during 1.0 projects. Here's how to avoid many of them. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue35.htm Most people suck at giving and receiving feedback: here's a short guide for doing it well. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue34.htm - The most important thing about a brainstorming session is what happens after it ends. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue33.htm - Veteran advice on accepting, avoiding, dealing with, and working through burnout. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue32.htm The dramatic and stunning conclusion on what I wish they had taught me. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue31.htm The things I wish they taught me ten years ago about web and software design in the tech sector http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue30.htm The design and engineering of software and the web has bred a hubris that anything older than a few years cant be relevant, this is a mistake. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue29.htm Why training doesn't have to be boring, and how to structure events and conferences that actually work http://www.uiweb.com/other/chiweb.htm The compiled listings of summary posts from the acm chiweb discussion list on web design and usability http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue28.htm What follows is some advice for managers on how to manager people, especially talented people. I worked for nine years at Microsoft, sometimes managing projects, sometimes managing people, but always with a manager above me http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue27.htm Usability benchmarking is one way to get a longer term view of how easy to use things are, and what progress is being made over time http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue26.htm Discoverability is often defined as the ability for a user of a design to locate something that they need, in order to complete a certain task. It is common to hear programmers and designers utter the phrase *that wont be discoverable*, while pointing to a specific command or link they believe users will fail to find. The trap, and the myth, of discoverability is that in any design, not everything can be discoverable. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue24.htm Conferences are what you make of them. If you are not sure why you are going, or what you want to get out of the experience, you are unlikely to get it. This essay gives one perspective on conferences, and how to make them more valuable and engaging experiences. http://www.uiweb.com/issues/issue08.htm A short story about how I learned one important truth about designing things.