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Today I stopped by a favourite local bakery (Uprising Breads) to get an iced latte and Avocado and Hummus sandwich. The people there are always friendly and that sandwich always terrific. The problem arose when the barista served me my coffee.

For April Fools this year I swapped the home page photos of the team for pictures of dogs. They are a dogged group: hard working, great spirit, determined, fun, and smart (able to do cool user expereince tricks!).

Last week Justin and I went to the University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering Corporate Affiliates Day. (See my post about that event)

A couple of weeks ago Justin and I went to the Corporate Affiliates Day at University of Washington’s Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) program.

Last week a friend of mine (smart, successful entrepreneur) was telling me about a copier he’d leased for his office of 20 people. Their old copier was no longer up to the task and they had decided to lease a new machine from a big copy machine company. They have the need for both oversized printing and colour scanning so the machine is they need pretty complex.

Yesterday was April Fool’s Day. And what I thought was a totally crazy joke, turned out to have a lot of interest.

For the gag I forwarded an old message to the building list serve to my staff but changed the subject and content of the message.

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I’ve been following, with some interest, over the last few years the open data movement. For me it started with Hans Rosling’s 2006 TED talk: Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen.

Last week a client asked me that very question, “What are the best labels to use on this website?” ADGi had been engaged to complete an assessment of the company’s current website's information architecture.

One of the main attributes of the design work we at ADGi do (and when I say design I mean interaction design and information architecture, not so much visual design) is that all of it is evidence-based. That is, all of it, and I really mean all of it, every interaction, every node in the site map, is driven out of user research and expert analysis.

http://wave.google.com/