An Event Apart, Denver, Dec 2017
RT @zeldman: Your greatest skill is to remove, to take away. Anyone can add. More features doesn’t mean better usability. It takes real skill to strip away.@gerrymcgovern #AEADenver
— Deborah Edwards-Onoro (@redcrew) December 14, 2017
I love @gerrymcgovern's passion and no-bullshit approach and suddenly want to TEST ALL THE THINGS #AEADenver
— Ivana McConnell (@IvanaMcConnell) December 14, 2017
A link gives a promise. If most links were married, they would be divorced because they don’t keep their promises. !! @gerrymcgovern #aeadenver
— Marya (@emdot) December 14, 2017
User testing advice: "The key skill to doing this is to shut up. You want people to forget that you exist." – @gerrymcgovern #aeadenver
— Jeseka Hahn (@JesekaHahn) December 14, 2017
"Empathy can be a double-edged sword since the key to effective user-testing is to shut up.” – @gerrymcgovern #aeadenver
— Jason Ogle (@jasonogle) December 14, 2017
Thanks for a rad show @aneventapart!! @gerrymcgovern closed it out in great fashion! Next year I hope!! #aeadenver
— Chris Sanford (@CKeelerS) December 14, 2017
“The most radical innovation in the last 25 years is the link.”@gerrymcgovern #AEADenver
— zeldman (@zeldman) December 14, 2017
The link should always be the destination, not the format.
‘If most links were married, they’d already be divorced. Because they don’t keep their promises.’@gerrymcgovern #aeadenver— Jess Hutton (@JessLHutton) December 14, 2017
User testing advice: "The key skill to doing this is to shut up. You want people to forget that you exist." – @gerrymcgovern #aeadenver
— Jeseka Hahn (@JesekaHahn) December 14, 2017
“The page downloaded in two seconds, and you wasted an additional four seconds scrolling past the useless content at the top.”@gerrymcgovern #AEADenver
— zeldman (@zeldman) December 14, 2017
'Manage the task of the customer, instead of task of the organisation.' @gerrymcgovern #CMW17
— mirjamsamsen (@mirjamsamsen) November 9, 2017
I couldn’t agree more there’s nothing like video of real customer behavior to convince stubborn executives. “You need the what and the why.” @gerrymcgovern #aeadenver pic.twitter.com/a4KXSq8DeK
— Benjamin Gadbaw (@bgadbaw) December 14, 2017
"Anybody can add, it takes a real professional to remove" – @gerrymcgovern #aeadenver
— emily powell carpenter (@emilieparle) December 14, 2017
What’s politically impossible to change becomes changeable when you show management real people failing to complete top tasks.@gerrymcgovern #AEADenver
— zeldman (@zeldman) December 14, 2017