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Oct 6, 2012Yeah,the old Tim Burton is back with his best movie since Sweeney Todd.Frankenweenie is visually beautiful and very emotional,I have to say that what he done in Dark Shadows is forgiven here
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Oct 14, 2012Great film! It has the tenderness of Manostijeras, is than macabe like Bitelchús and than original like Nightmare. Great autorreferencial work, is full of tributes to the movies that comprise of the imaginarium of this genial author.
Nov 3, 2012Tim Burton is always good when he enters in mainstream area, I find Alice in Wonderland was good. Frankenweenie was exceptional, black and white stop-motion animation with entertaining premise and spectacular 3D. Oh, Burton you so much win!
Nov 25, 2012
Jan 13, 2013Frankenweenie is a joyful, weird, funny, and sweet film. It isn't really a story with depth, but it certainly is Burton's best film he has made in the last few years even if it is a bit disappointing. I give this film 68%.
Dec 21, 2012
Oct 5, 2012Frankenweenie. One of my favorite animated movies of this year, I think that is fresh, original -yes I know that the movie is based on the Tim Burton's short-, the movie is really interesting, the development of the story is funny, and yes I think that is one of the best movies of this year.
Oct 9, 2012Tim Burton, you are the MAN!!! Franknenweenie is the greatest film of this year and of the decade, he has crafted this treat by throwing away Helena and Johhhhny deppp and and and and CHrsiwsatopher. HE has gone dark for the first time, its scary. He likes black.
Jan 18, 2013What an UNORGINAL idea!! Take an old idea from a horror movie, shoot it in black and white, make it boring and you have "Frankenweenie" Stay way from this movie!
Feb 2, 2013Definitely a film for your pre-teen, nothing in it for adults, in fact, the signature line in it "Sometimes adults don't know what they're talking about" is what kids suspected all along. I feel sorry for all the parents whose young kid now wants to bring their dead pet(s) back to life with lots of electricity.
Feb 28, 2013a black and white animation? WTF? b/c they wanted it to be noir? i'm sure children appreciate that. stupid movie, waste of time from a one trick pony of a director.
Mar 9, 2013Several counts of animal cruelty, malformed-looking characters and a storyline that is unsuitable for kids yet "designed" for them regardless makes Frankenweenie a terrible movie, one that never should have seen the light of day. Shooting it in black and white doesn't help and the voice-acting feels unnatural. I'm kind of surprised Disney put its name under it.
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Apr 28, 2013I loved this movie! From the stop-motion animation, to the classic Tim Burton atmosphere, to the great references to Universal Horror Classics and other cornerstones of the horror genre. This was my favorite animated film of 2012, and one of my favorite films of that year overall. If you like classic horror and Burton's quirkiness, this is among the best he has to offer!
Mar 16, 2013Frankenweenie could have explored more plot points and made better use of its supporting characters. However, these are small critcisms. The overall film is beautiful, emotionally intense, and has a lot of charm.
Feb 23, 2013A fast paced creepy delight. Tim Burton and Danny Elfman do wonders together. The movie is neither complicated nor boring and is something that everyone can enjoy.
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Nov 17, 2012I say that is a great animated movie.I think it'll be nominated to the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature.The kids want to plagiarize the Victor's ''science project''?I don't know.
Oct 15, 2012Frankenweenie is just in time for the Halloween season! I absolutely adored the animation, the storyline, and the outcome. T. Burton is has definitely made a rebound from Dark Shadows!! Frankenweenie is probably going to be the first animated movie I'll purchase on Bluray once it's available for purchase.
Oct 15, 2012Burton's best film since 1994's Ed Wood or even 1990's Edward Scissorhands. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carrie-2013-has-hemorrhoids-/154149308058300
Jan 29, 2013Tim Burton deve essere stato un ragazzino molto solo e i suoi film pullulano di giovani maschi impegnati a fare i conti con un mondo su cui non sono sintonizzati. Questo vale anche per il Victor Frankenstein di
Oct 25, 2012With its anti-intellectualism critique, classic horror film homages and beautiful production design, Frankenweenie is a great film for adventurous young audiences.
Nov 2, 2012After watching the trailer i was afraid that a wonderful story had been ruined because of the other kids but in the end, it turned out i loved all of their characters.They all had likable personalities and i was excited to see what monster each of them would create. Tim Burton has done it again and created a masterpiece that is great for all ages!
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Jan 25, 2013Frankenweenie was a interesting and different type of animated movie. I was surprised that the choice of black and white instead of color worked as well as it did. The animations and art style were well done, unique, and had the Tim Burton feel. The story was a little sad, but the theme (Frankenstein) helped soften the blows.
Mar 11, 2013Tim Burton is so hit or miss and with Frankenweenie the best you can say is that at least he's not adapting another remake. This was a decent film, but it's not the Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Jul 4, 2013"Frankenweenie" does fall short when it comes to storytelling, but it's emotion between the main characters Victor and Sparky that truly makes this film shine.
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Jun 26, 2014one of the most weird , creative director tim burton presents " Franken weenie " . the movie presents it self in a creative weird way like most of his creepy animated movies like ( Corpses bride and nightmare before christmas.) but in the best way it has a very amazing imagination and good screenplay. Grade A+
Nov 13, 2014
Very sweet, very funny, really quite touching and exquisitely handmade, by a film lover with humour and a heart, for a like-minded audience.
It's a likable film, though not a sensational development in Tim Burton's career.
Frankenweenie is a love story between a boy and his dog. It is also a beautifully crafted homage to classic horror films, a study of grief and a commentary on the mysteries of science and those who narrow-mindedly fear its advances.


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Friday - 11/14/2008, 12:52pm EST
By Dorothy Ramienski
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The deadline for IPv6 has come and gone.
So, now what?
Agencies are asking -- and the Federal IPv6 Working Group has answers.
The chairman of that group is Pete Tseronis.
He's also a Senior Technical Advisor with the Department of Energy.
On Thursday's Daily Debrief, he spoke with hosts Christopher Dorobek and Amy Morris about how federal agencies can move forward.
Tseronis says it's now up to the agencies to deploy secure end-to-end, shared IPv6-enabled services that meet the specific needs of their missions.
We keep talking about Web 2.0 and cloud computing and virtualization and green IT. Well, it's so dependent on the Internet fabric that the real work of architecting the Internet needs to be done at an agency-by-agency level and assure that there's continuity between those agencies.
This is where the IPV6 Working Group really comes in handy
So what we're doing in the working group and doing with industry -- and we're pretty excited about -- is coming up with an executive guidance document. It's a guidance document that will provide practical and actionable guidance on how to successfully integrate V6 into your enterprise.
Tseronis says this particular document should be released within the next couple of weeks.
One of the benefits, he notes, is that it also contains information that can be coordinated with agency enterprise architecture transition strategy, as well as their information sharing and infrastructure segment architecture.
So, there's a timing as to when we want to release these next steps and what has to be done, but we're hoping -- with collaboration from our industry folks -- that this will give agencies that next phase direction.
You don't have to wait for the document, however. Tseronis says agencies should already be using enterprise architecture in order to comply with OMB's mandates.
There's specific language that calls out IPv6 for those enterprise architects in government . . . because they know that they are to provide actionable or concrete plans as to what their agencies are going to be doing. We have established a strategy . . . through the adoption from industry, as well as what the government's trying to do going forward, and that's setting up realistic milestones.
Tseronis says those realistic milestones are one of the most important points of the transition from V4 to V6.
It's not just saying . . . "You must do this," like we did with our memo that came out in June. It's specifically saying, "Take the planning aspect of IPv6. You're already looking to modernize your network to take advantage of Web 2.0 and some of those other applications or tools". Well, none of that works unless you really architect it behind the walls.
This, Tseronis points out, is why discussions about IPv4 exhaustion shouldn't be seen as something that can be dealt with years from now.
What agencies should be doing is getting test labs set up, defining their addressing and integration plans, circulating the immediacy of this to the senior level folks so that they don't think that June 30 came and went.
IPv6 isn't something that can be bought and installed overnight. Tseronis says it's a migration that needs to be extensively planned for, which is why test labs and architecture planning are essential.
With all the talk of transition, however, Tseronis does point out that there's no need for panic.
It's not something we need to hold our breath [on] like we did with Y2K and say, "Okay, as of this date, we're good to go." There are transition strategies in effect -- best practices guidance that this document that will be coming out here is going to explain and it's relationship to of V6 to the other e-government or federal initiatives that are going on.
Tseronis says no one should be treating each IT issue as a silo and that V6 is an enabling technology.
IPv4, as you use it today, the fact that addresses are going to run out, may not mean anything to the average Joe or the consumer, but the reality is, we've been using the Internet for purposes and it has evolved over a number of years -- that we just rely on this ability to have devices communicate with one another -- and that is through the IP address.
Getting different devices to communicate with each other is one thing -- but enabling a V4 device to speak with a V6 device is something else. Tseronis says this is where the work is involved and why the move from V4 to V6 is world-wide.
You can google the Korean IT initiative, e-Japan, China's Next Generation Internet -- and they are very advanced in the V6 arena. It's not doing them any good or us any good by not collaborating with one another so that we can move forward from a global economic perspective.
Tseronis says those interested can expect a comment period on the document to open before the end of this month.
There is an industry accepted estimate that the last IPv4 addresses will be given out by March, 2012.
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are a type of tumor that occurs in the digestive system. The digestive system includes the esophagus, liver, stomach, gall bladder, large and small intestines, and rectum. The digestive system processes food to fuel the body and gets rid of waste. About half of GISTs occur in the stomach, but they can occur anywhere in the digestive system.
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Many people with GIST have a defect in a gene called c-kit. Usually, this gene is not active. However, in people with GIST, the c-kit gene often has a defect and is active, which enables the cells to grow and divide uncontrollably. This may explain why a GIST forms.
Theories about GISTs say that they begin in special cells of the digestive system. These cells are called interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs). They send signals that tell the digestive system to contract, which moves food and liquid through the digestive system.
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Middletown and Xavier, after spending 15 Thanksgiving Days together, announced their breakup Thursday, as reported by Gentleman Jim Bransfield of the Middletown Press.
Xavier owned the series. It had a 12-3 edge and won 12 of the last 13 games.
Middletown athletic director Michael Pitruzzello and Tony Jaskot, his Xavier counterpart, told Bransfield that the series didn't end because of the results. That's a little hard to believe when one team has beaten the other so many times, and then said series is discontinued, but, hey, que sera sera and all that jazz.
No one at Polecat HQ ever had the pleasure of attending any of the games, but we're nonetheless saddened to hear that the series went kaput because town rivalries are awesome.
We'd pitch a fit if, say, West Haven and Notre Dame of West Haven went splitsville.
Bransfield noted that Middletown v. Xavier was one of the state's top drawing cards. This year's game drew an estimated 6,000 to Andrus Field at Wesleyan. Football doesn't need to lose that kind of rivarly.
The most interesting item in Bransfield's story — Jaskot wants the Falcons to schedule a team from out-of-state. Jaskot has called St. John's of Shrewsbury, Mass. to see if it would like to hook 'em up.
Jaskot added that he'd like to play another Xaverian Brothers school, and that his "dream" is to arrange a two-year agreement to play Mount St. Joseph of Baltimore.
All that written, we'll miss seeing you on the Thanksgrabbing Day schedule, Middletown and Xavier.
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Arguably the biggest coaching vacancy was filled Thursday when Masuk hired David Brennan as its new el supremo, as reported by Sean Bowley of Hearst Inc.
Brennan had been a Ridgefield assistant coach the last nine seasons and has 26 years experience. He's in his eight year with the Monroe Public Schools and is a special education teacher this year.
There was one other hiring this week — Lewis Mills assistant Jose Santana was promoted to head coach, as reported by Pete Paguaga of the Torrington Register Citizen.
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It's nigh impossible for a story to go unreported nowadays. A 24-7 media, the Innernets, and the antisocial media poke their nose into everyone's business.
Twas amazing, then, to learn this week that East Haven coach Greg Volpe submitted his letter of resignation. A MONTH AGO.
Joe Joe Mor-el-lio of JRC Amalgamated reported the story Monday. A source also told him that Volpe emailed parents about his resignation around the time he tendered resignation, which would make it more amazing that it took so long for word to reach the press.
Volpe coached the Yellowjackets for five seasons.
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The Adventures of Usability Girl
As UX professionals, we chase the dream that we'll land a position in a company where UX is already a passion. A passion that everyone in the company knows, understands, recognizes, and invests in as the principle to guide corporate direction. A passion that all employees evangelize, and a passion that reaps rewards and riches for the company and its customers. But the reality is that in any place we work, chances are we'll find ourselves in the position of dividing time among being a UX practitioner, a salesperson, a teacher, and a soldier in the UX revolution.
Everyone has different experiences building the legitimacy of UX in their workplace. Three years ago at AT&T Interactive (ATTi), I embarked on a UX journey where there was terrific potential: a company dedicated to solid technology and a super-motivated sales force that was always adding customers. Engineering and sales were firmly in place, and UX joined in to help give consumers the best experience possible.
Taking a look back, I can see how far we've come. Today, UX is an integral piece of the company, and a cornerstone in the product lifecycle. From all the challenges we've tackled at ATTi, I've pulled together a few ideas that any UX soldier can apply again and again, whether introducing UX to a new company or building on an existing process.
1. Get the Lay of the Land
When faced with the task of changing a culture that has not yet drunk the UX Kool-Aid, it's imperative that you forge relationships with teams outside of UX. Understanding the responsibilities, roles, and challenges of other teams will allow everyone to find the best ways to help each other be successful. If they don't know you, why would they trust you or utilize you?
Get to know the product managers and show interest in what they're working on. When you gain the trust of product managers, you can help them see that UX isn't a competitive corporate structure. You'll also be able to find the most efficient way to add your expertise to their product development efforts. When you work together with a common goal in mind—creating better experiences for customers—products get stronger.
The same approach is critical in communicating with people in engineering and marketing. Don't know much about engineering? Learn. Reach out, keep talking. It's amazing how much people are willing to offer when your interest is genuine.
When you accomplish this, your allies and advocates will help you spread awareness of the value of UX. Legitimizing UX within a company is a lot easier when you have others vouching for you. And hopefully word will eventually bubble up to the executive level, and that's where the most change can happen for UX. When you have executive buy-in to the importance of UX, it's a lot easier to make it a standard part of product processes and timelines.
UX can't operate as an island. As much as we all believe that other teams in a company need us, we also need all those other teams. Yes, you'll face adversity and frustration once in a while, but at the end of the day you all have a common goal. The sooner you find a way to work towards that goal together, the sooner you'll be able to prove the value that UX brings to an organization. So put on a smile, get interested, and be patient. UX cannot be successful if it's siloed within a company.
2. Show & Tell
One challenge in convincing a company that UX is a "need to have" as opposed to a "nice to have" is that the employees of a lot of companies still don't have any familiarity with UX. I've found that the best way to introduce UX is to provide opportunities for others to see firsthand what our team can do. Even when I started out as a team of one—the sole information architect and usability researcher—I welcomed opportunities to give others a peek into what I was working on. Pretty soon I came to be known as "Usability Girl," and when you get a superhero-like nickname, you know you're doing something right.
When people got interested in learning more about usability testing, I asked them to be participants in sessions testing new products. When I built out the in-house usability lab, I gave group tours to coworkers and asked them to view a session from the observation room. I put together highlight reel presentations of our testing and shared it with other teams.
Even as UX at ATTi has grown from one person into a full business unit, this show & tell practice has continued. When the usability team runs testing each week, we send out an announcement of what will be tested and open up our observation room to everyone. When the information architects create wireframes or Axure prototypes, they share them with not just the stakeholders, but also the rest of the project team and anyone else who may have a vested interest in the project. The same goes for the comps that the design team creates.
It's surprising to see how interested others are in the UX process. And there's no better way to educate people about UX and the amazing benefits it can bring to a project than showing them firsthand with tangible experiences and outputs. Everyone loves to see a project come to life via the UI.
Letting other people see UX practices firsthand stokes their interest and makes them feel like part of the UX process. Giving people an open window into UX has been a great way of building trust in UX as an integral part of the product process, and of creating advocates for UX within ATTi. It's making believers out of people! I stop and smile when I hear "wireframes," "usability testing," and "design comps" being used in conversations by people who aren't on my team. And it happens all the time now.
As you create buzz about UX, people will start telling you about articles they've read about UX concepts such as eye tracking, and they'll ask you why we have a usability lab that does not have one (gasp!), but look at it this way—it's a sign of interest in UX!
3. Prove the Value
Even after forging relationships within the company and introducing others to what UX is, a UX team can't be successful without proving its value. If UX isn't moving the needle in a positive way, whether by positive consumer feedback or by increased engagement numbers, it will stay stuck in the "nice to have" bucket. Once a product is set loose into the world, your work isn't finished—it's actually only beginning.
You can prove the value by showing how user research has informed the direction of product features and functionality, how usability testing has improved the ability of a user to work intuitively through a UI, and how applying human factors principles in information architecture has improved the interaction for the user. You can show how the new look-and-feel has improved a user's complete interactive experience and improved their attitude towards your brand.
ATTi's YELLOWPAGES.COM homepage (now YP.com) was due for a facelift. Analytics were showing that user engagement was not what we hoped for, so it was time for a redesign. We worked with a great product manager who understood and appreciated UX, and he allowed for us to fully utilize our UX toolkit. We started off with contextual user research and formal usability testing on the existing homepage to get a good grasp of who our users were, what they were looking for, and what were they finding problematic on the existing site. The findings from this research helped the product manager decide how we should approach the features and functionality of the page, and also helped the information architects and designers in designing the UI and the look-and-feel.
When all was said and done and the new homepage went out, the project's success was evident. The new page performed well in the next round of usability testing, and internal and external feedback on the page was positive. The product manager invested in the UX team and the time to go through the whole UX process, and his return was definitely evident as the page was, and still is, a success.
You also need to show how you are making things better for other teams in the company. This starts with a clear, efficient, and thought-out process that illustrates how UX fits within the bigger project lifecycle. In my experience at ATTi, it was best to start with finding out what the needs of each the teams within the company were, and what their existing internal processes were. From there, I worked with my own UX team to develop a process that aligned the work of our three principal focus areas (information architecture, design, and usability) with the overall product process. We then rolled that out to teams across the company to ensure that everyone understood and was on board. Walking through how the UX process would work with real project examples that each team was intimately familiar with helped illustrate how the process works, and also helped generate buy-in to its value.
How do you prove the value of these internal process improvements? You're providing value to the project (and, thereby, to the company) if your role as well as your process allow you to work collaboratively with your project team to enhance the quality of the end product. For example, your team's user research, wireframes, site maps, and designs should serve as valuable assets to a product manager who is making sure that all features and functionality has been accounted for in her product. Those same deliverables should be helpful to the developers who will be building the product by allowing them to visualize the end result while also seeing what the components are.
4. Hire Great People
You can't build out a legitimate UX organization in a company on your own. And you can't do it by approaching it as a task of filling open headcount. I went from a team of one to a team of 20 over the course of three years. The team that started as just a usability group grew to encompass information architecture and creative design. But it's about quality over quantity. I took my time. I hired quality, even if it meant that the lack of quantity was making my plate too full.
If you want a UX team that will make a difference within a company, you have to hire the right people for the job, as well as for the team. You should only hire "A players" from whom everyone, including yourself, can learn.
It is also important that the team meshes well. You need a team that gets along and gets better at what they do because of each other. It's amazing how true the saying "one bad apple spoils the bunch" proves to be in a workplace setting. So take your time hiring the right people. Wait for the "A players." Find them, hire them, and grow them within the team. I've always had the best luck asking people I trust for candidate recommendations. Do your due diligence in checking out their portfolios, speak to anyone in your network who is familiar with them, and run thorough interviews including the team they will be working with.
When I was just starting out as "Usability Girl," I went several months working until the early morning hours just to keep up with all the UX projects across the company. I knew I could just settle with the next candidate to apply for a job and thereby regain some work–life balance. But to make a splash with this new team, I was going to have to hire strong people.
So I waited to hire until I came across A players—candidates with a good balance between passion and the skill of compromise, and with portfolios that showed attention to detail while also demonstrating creativity and the ability to think holistically. I look for people with likeable personalities who also show an ability to communicate ideas and their rationales.
5. Persistence Is Key
When building UX within any organization, you'll come across roadblocks. There will be setbacks. You may doubt that you are making a difference. But you have to keep at it. Remember that there's a good reason to keep at it: the end user. You have to continue to build relationships with other teams around the company, because you all want the same thing: more customers.
You have to continue to fine-tune your UX process to provide the best ROI, and allow other teams to have visibility into your work. Even when things are going fantastically from a UX perspective, you still need to put in the work to improve the ways in which UX is ingrained in the company and the culture. Remember that UX is a "need to have," and continually work to prove that to be the case.
It took almost two years to get to a point where my team got a chance to fully utilize our UX toolkit with the YP.com homepage redesign. Up until that point, we just didn't have the time to invest in contextual user research, or the opportunity to really push the limits with a fresh, new design. But we never gave up, and continued to push. As success stories like that one are becoming more common, I can confidently say that UX has made its mark within the organization and is here to stay as an integral component of ATTi. We still have a lot of work to do, but we have definitely transitioned from "nice to have" and found a solid home in the "need to have" bucket.
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I agree, that some places may be more challenging than others in terms of fighting the good fight for UX. However, I don't think that it has to do with just maturity. AT&T is a mature company, but even here I had to start from nothing by myself. I was not given budget or resources at the beginning. The first thing I did was go meet people. And the first "usability test" I ever ran here was at the nearby Starbucks where I purchased gift cards to give out to people willing to participate. So I agree that it can be more challenging in places, but definitely not a useless fight. It really can be done. You do have to be patient and persistent though.
Best does not always equal most experienced. I have hired plenty of people who do not have a lot of experience, including recent grads. And I have not forgotten that I was once of those "recent grads" myself, looking for a chance! To me, best is in regards to potential, eye for UX, work ethic, etc. Not just the number of years under your belt.
Nice article, but I have this question: If you suggest to hire the best (experienced) people, how does it affect recent graduated or less experienced people? Are they just hopeless guys/girls trying to be part of a good UX team?
I can totally relate to your journey. I, too, grew a team from a few random designers into a great UX team. It took about a year to get the people who were already in the company, combined with a couple of A players I hired, into a functioning UX team. After that, we expanded, had many successes, and built a really great practice. Unfortunately, politics and roadblocks and the economy took it's toll over several years. I'm happy to say that the team/wireframes/comps/and the usability lab is still in place, even though I'm not. I truly made a long-term positive impact for the company and I'm really proud of that. I am now, once again, and for the fourth time, building a UX practice. It's nice to see your steps outlined so clearly. You're spot on. And, if you're starting with a less-than-stellar team, coaching and guidance can really raise the bar. Good hires are key, but average team players can sometimes play key roles, and you can coach them to better work.
Nice article, Stephanie.
But I'm afraid that your fight would be useless in a company without some degree of maturity.
I have been the "usability team of one" (I'm from Spain) for about 10 years in two different companies, and trust me if I tell you that some companies simply aren't ready for this kind of "cost" (as they see usability budget).
This article sounds like what I experience in my company. I am just starting to spread UX and at first an awareness for it. The way I proceed with my work as a Usability Engineer is similar to Stephanie´s. So in my opinion understanding others teams´work is really essential to make progress and embed UX in product development. It´s sometimes hard to keep motivated and make the next step towards a recognition within the organization. However I enjoy seeing more and more people getting interested in my UX activities.
Great article. As a provider of UX research services, I echo everything Stephanie said. We work with all types of companies and see the struggle that people like Stephanie have on a daily basis to make UX a part of the product life cycle.
I have found the best way to educate what we do is to invite people to user sessions and socialize your successes. At the end of the day, the voice of the customer, when heard right from the customer, is amazingly powerful.
Keep up the good fight Steph!
Great article and I can definitely validate what is written here as a PM working with Steph for 2 years from when she was a 1-woman team until today when she has a wonderful team that is deeply ingrained in the Product process. Her team is invaluable in every product and there is definitely a heavy emphasis on usability in everything we do thanks to her evangelism and RESULTS.
Companies building websites without a strong UX team are at a distinct disadvantage, especially in a time of information and feature overload combined with users who have less time and attention to give individual sites as well as more alternatives to use if your site doesn't work the way they expect and understand.


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DENVER -- The Mets set franchise records Friday by allowing 11 runs and committing four errors in one inning. They committed six errors in all. One of their bench players hit for the cycle, after entering the game with five hits all season. Then again, that was not so outlandish considering both sides combined for 36 hits in one of the wackiest, ugliest games the Mets have played in recent memory.
The end result was an 18-9 loss to the Rockies at Coors Field, a loss so implausible that all the Mets could do afterward was shrug. If Scott Hairston's cycle was not enough to save them, what could? If nine runs and 17 hits of their own could not lift them, what could?
"That was probably one of the most craziest games I've ever been a part of," Hairston said. "But that's just one day. That's just one day in the season, and we've got to put it behind us."
This one followed all the conventions of a typical game until the fifth inning, when starting pitcher Chris Schwinden took the four-run lead the Mets had given him and set it afire. Pinch-hitter Eric Young led off the inning by reaching on Schwinden's own throwing error. Marco Scutaro walked. Jonathan Herrera singled, plating a run. And Carlos Gonzalez chased Schwinden with a booming three-run home run that reached the pine forest beyond Coors Field's center-field wall, tying the game.
In came Manny Acosta, who retired only one of the nine batters he faced. Included therein was a three-run homer for Dexter Fowler and a two-run single for Gonzalez, giving him five RBIs for the inning and a career-high six for the game.
And still, somehow, some way, the game was not out of reach.
In large part because of Hairston's cycle, the 10th in team history, the Mets stayed close until Ramon Hernandez's grand slam in the seventh. It was Hairston who gave the Mets their second run in the fourth inning, Hairston who drew them within one in the fifth inning, Hairston who propelled them back within five with his cycle-completing double in the sixth.
But it was the Mets who could not take advantage of that, giving up a combined 16 runs in the fifth and seventh innings.
"You play enough games here, you know innings like that are going to possibly take place," manager Terry Collins said. "It happened pretty fast."
Just that quickly, the Mets undid most of the good vibes they had carried with them to Colorado after sweeping the Marlins in New York this week. Mets pitchers had given up four runs total in three games against the Marlins, and 17 over their last five games. Then they went out and allowed 18 to the Rockies in just over three hours.
In a sullen clubhouse afterward, there were no easy answers. Hairston called his cycle "bittersweet," saying he will enjoy it only after Friday's outcome is forgotten. Collins bemoaned a bullpen that had pitched so well recently, citing Acosta in particular. Schwinden lamented a personal opportunity lost, given how important a strong outing would have been for him to solidify his spot as Mike Pelfrey's rotation replacement.
"This wasn't a good way to go about it," Schwinden said. "But hopefully I get another opportunity to do that."
With 35,103 mostly gleeful fans surrounding them at Coors Field, the Mets had reason to feel downtrodden after one of their worst pitching and defensive performances in years. But in the context of the season, it was just one loss on the heels of three victories.
The Mets did their best to look at it that way.
"Anything can happen in this ballpark," Hairston said. "I've played here a lot of times and I've seen a lot. It's just one of those nights where you come up short, and you just have to forget about it."
As if to sum up the day, Ruben Tejada came to the plate with two outs in the ninth, took three balls from Rockies pitcher Rex Brothers, then dropped his bat and began to jog to first base. Two pitches later, after realizing his mistake, Tejada struck out looking to end the game.
"It's one of those nights," Collins said. "It's hopefully the last time we'll see it this summer. But we'll have another bad day."
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Often we experience suffering when we have faithfully served the Lord, while other faithful servants experience prosperity. When this happens, it is easy to wallow in dissatisfaction. We are also tempted to try to find the reasons why our situation ...Read More
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Not everyone who works hard for Christ's church receives honor and commendation from other people such as we see in Paul's list of greetings. But even when no one else commends us for our work, the Lord sees what we ...Read More
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Armed with my shiny new sweet chili dressing it was time to use it and it only seemed natural to use it in a chicken salad since the idea came when I was enjoying a chicken satay salad in spicy peanut dressing . I decided to go with a lettuce base for this salad and then I filled it out with some ingredients that I commonly use in Thai style dishes including bean sprouts, carrots, red peppers and cucumbers. Next up is the chicken and to make things easy I used shredded chicken so you can use any leftover chicken that you may have. The salad is then garnished with chopped peanuts, sliced chilies and some fresh herbs including one or more of the following: cilantro, mint and Thai basil. I have to say that the resulting salad has to one of the best that I have had in a while! It is so fresh, juicy, crunchy and full of flavour provided by the amazing sweet chili dressing ! One thing that I noticed is that the dressing clings to the chicken nicely ensuring that the chicken in nice and moist and very tasty!
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A fresh and tasty chicken salad in a Thai sweet chili sauce dressing.
- 2 cups chicken, cooked and shredded
- 4 cups lettuce, sliced
- 2 cups bean sprouts
- 1/2 red pepper, sliced thinly
- 1/2 cup carrot, sliced thinly
- 1 cup cucumber, sliced
- 2 green onions, sliced
- cilantro to taste, torn (optional)
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- basil to taste, torn (optional)
- chilies to taste, sliced (optional)
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Workman aims to bounce back against White Sox
It may be just the beginning of July, but White Sox left-hander John Danks has 13 quality starts, one more than he had all of last season.
That number not only speaks to the left-hander's skill on the mound, but his dominance. He's 4-2 with a 2.65 ERA in his last eight outings.
The left-hander will look to keep that hot streak going in Tuesday's game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
In his last start against the Angels, Danks allowed two runs on seven hits in 7 2/3 innings for a no-decision. He also had 10 strikeouts, which tied a career high.
"I try not to worry too much about what I've done in the past. I try to learn from every game," Danks said. "I focus on things I need to work on, but I hadn't even given any thought to my game the other night. I'm ready to pitch against Boston now.
"I'll take some things from the last game, but won't sit and dwell on it. Good or bad, the game will humble you if you feel like you got it figured out."
Meanwhile, Red Sox right-hander Brandon Workman enters Tuesday's contest looking to rebound after his worst start of the season.
He took his second straight loss on Wednesday against the Cubs after allowing six runs on five hits in four innings of work.
"I mean, I didn't really set a good tone coming out," Workman said after the start. "Three runs in the first gets them in a swinging mindset. They start feeling good about themselves. I got their bats warmed up for the bullpen and put some guys in bad spots."
The sharpness Workman had at the beginning of June hasn't been there in his last few starts. After allowing just five runs on 10 hits in his first three starts last month, he's surrendered 10 runs on 12 hits in his last two outings.
"I just wasn't locating the fastball very well," Workman said. "My pitches were up high. I walked a couple guys in the first inning. I left some balls up over the plate they hit well."
White Sox: Gillaspie out of lineup with sore knee
After leaving Sunday's game against the Mariners when a pitch hit off his right knee, Conor Gillaspie was out of the White Sox lineup for Monday's series opener against the Red Sox.
"He's moving a little better," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "But he's sore, and we just felt it was better to give him today and make sure he's able to get out there and move around and dive and do all that stuff. He's pretty sore today."
Gillaspie had X-rays on the knee, which showed no break. The White Sox are hopeful that he'll be fine for Tuesday's game.
"It's not pleasant," Ventura said. "Hopefully, by tomorrow he should be fine."
Red Sox: Carp activated, Herrera optioned
Boston activated Mike Carp from the disabled list on Monday and optioned utility man Jonathan Herrera to Triple-A Pawtucket.
"He's done a lot of good things," Red Sox manager John Farrell said of Herrera. "He fits the role to a T, the utility role. It was a difficult conversation. He's a quality person, quality player. Stayed prepared and contributed when asked in the role that he was in."
The Red Sox are excited to get Carp back from a right foot fracture that had sidelined him since June 1.
Carp will be used sparingly in his first few games back against the White Sox, who are throwing left-handers from Tuesday through Thursday.
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• Danks is 3-6 with a 4.97 ERA in 10 career starts against the Red Sox.
• The White Sox have hit 14 home runs in their last 10 games.
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Much to my surprise I got a call from Andi Watson, Radioheads lighting designer and a good friend of mine, saying he was in Brisbane, so we met up for breakfast. His girlfriend, Felicity, lives here and he's taking a brief holiday. We had an hour or two to catch up before leaving the hotel, inadvertently not paying the cafe bill on departure (Ive been a little distracted recently). En route to the venue I checked into the band hotel. Ive been staying in town in order to be close to the venue, whilst theyve been staying up on the Gold Coast in the Versace Palace - a hotel that looks exactly as over the top as youd expect from a Versace Palace. Its Melbourne Cup day, which is a horse race that brings the country to a complete standstill. The entire band posse had gathered in Bonos room to watch the race and participate in a group betting pool which I never fully understood.
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- GenderF
- MeaningShe ascends. Feminine of Brian.
DescriptionPeople with this name tend to be passionate, compassionate, intuitive, romantic, and to have magnetic personalities. They are usually humanitarian, broadminded and generous, and tend to follow professions where they can serve humanity. Because they are so affectionate and giving, they may be imposed on. They are romantic and easily fall in love, but may be easily hurt and are sometimes quick-tempered.
Soul UrgePeople with this name have a deep inner desire to inspire others in a higher cause, and to share their own strongly held views on spiritual matters.People who like this name also like...
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