For over 10 years Derek has been providing strategic advice to clients large and small—across a wide spectrum of industries and non-profit sectors. Derek has been evangelizing user-centered software design for over a decade, and believes that most of the world’s software is in need of a good spanking. He can often be cajoled into speaking at length on these matters. Derek’s hobbies include cooking with cast iron, massive home remodels, and teaching his boys which lizards are safe to eat raw.
Open House for a Sustainable World
We hope you’ll join us on Thursday, November 12 for an open house in honor of World Usability Day 2009: “Designing for a Sustainable World”. The open house will take place in room ECCS 128 in…
Read full article »Is Conversion Optimization the Holy Grail of eCommerce?
Conversion optimization is, loosely put, the process of making incremental changes to your website that increase the volume/pace/value of desirable actions by your users (as measured by your web analytics…
Read full article »Ignite Boulder
Six of us from Foraker Labs headed downtown last evening to be entertained, educated, and elbowed by our fellow tech weenies at Ignite Boulder 6.
Read full article »Web Content 2009 – Reports from Chicago
We’re fresh back from Web Content 2009 (Twitter: #wc09) in Chicago, Illinois. Foraker presented at this conference and was also a sponsor.
Here are a few highlights…
Read full article »A Tale of Two Titles
All web pages must have an HTML <title> element to be valid. In fact, of all the various elements out there in HTML land, the <title> is one of the very few that are required in every HTML document. There’s a good…
Read full article »
