Articles on Design
Join Lane and Courtney in the Big Apple for LeanUX NYC
Join Lane Halley and Courtney Hemphill in NYC April 11th-13th, 2013 Spend some time this spring in Manhattan learning from 25 designers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and at least a couple developers at the LeanUX NYC conference. TLC Labs and Lean Startup Machine have partnered with NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Cyrus Innovation …
Combining Design and Development Stories in Tracker
Carbometer:Blog One of the fun things about working at Carbon Five is that we get a chance to work on product ideas we design and build ourselves. This gives us an opportunity to experiment with technologies and processes that interest us. Recently, I’ve been contributing to Carbometer:Blog, an information radiator that visualizes details about blog …
Disruptive Innovation using Agile Development and Lean UX
Rob Fan, CTO of Sharethrough, recently gave a great talk at the Lean Startup Circle on “Sustaining Disruption: How to Balance Innovation & Early Growth“. Rob spoke about the difference between sustainable and disruptive innovation and the importance of maintaining a balance of both in the progression of a company of any size. Today’s startups …
Seven Tips for Effective Customer Conversations
On July 18 I was the guest speaker at Startup UCLA, a summer accelerator program for UCLA entrepreneurs. I presented a new talk “Seven Tips for Effective Customer Conversations” and led the group in some exercises to practice core interview skills. Seven Tips for Effective Customer Conversations from Lane Halley Here’s a summary of the …
UX Recipe: Developer Wireframe Walkthrough
This is the first in a series of posts highlighting Lean UX practices at Carbon Five. They are presented as ‘recipes’ for you try out for yourself, then alter them to make them your own. While more and more of our clients are engaging us in full-service design/build projects, we still enjoy working with outside …
Carbon Five’s Collaborative Design Workbook Remixed
We’d like to thank Made by Many, some new friends we made at SXSW, for trying out the Carbon Five’s Collaborative Design Workbook. Here’s their take on design thinking for lean startups: MDW4 – Tim Malbon – Make Something from Boulder Digital Works on Vimeo. They’ve added a few twists of their own (plus the …
Interactivity in HTML5 Canvas Visualizations
In the last canvas visualization post I discussed the canvas API’s transform functionality and how it greatly simplifies drawing complex visualizations. In this post, I’ll talk a little about making canvas visualizations interactive and about problems you might encounter when mixing transforms and interactivity in a canvas application. Examples: (an HTML5 compatible browser is required …
Collaborative Design Workbook
This year a handfull of folks from Carbon Five went to South by Southwest. Christian, Mike and Rudy were scheduled to present, but a couple of us newbies were worried we wouldn’t have anything constructive to do at the conference. We’ve all been inspired recently by design thinking and how the activities can provide insights …
Visualizing Skillsets in HTML5 Canvas: Part 1
As Courtney chronicled in the d.build journal, Carbon Five recently engaged in a group exercise to create a physical diagram of our skills and interests. The activity was entertaining and produced a rather attractive artifact on the wall, but we soon realized that (aside from noting that some skills were more popular than others) there …
A 3D Flocking Simulation using HTML5 Canvas
I recently unearthed an old Java applet that I had written many years ago and decided to see what it would look like as a single page canvas application (an HTML5 compatible browser is required to view this page). The applet was inspired by the way blackbirds roost on power lines in San Francisco (and …