Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

Terry Bleizeffer

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Terry works at IBM in the Software Group as Lead Architect for User Experience for the IBM WebSphere brand. He joined IBM in 1996 and spent two years working on DB2 in Silicon Valley before transferring to North Carolina so he could afford more than a cardboard box to live in. His increasingly irrelevant education happened at Indiana University (undergrad) and the University of California at Santa Cruz (grad).

Terry's professional interests include inherent complexity, user generated content, user research, and technological deep dives.

When he's not working, his interests include video games, reading pulp fiction, blogging, playing with his kids, college basketball, and writing bios about himself in the third person.

Email:
terrybleizeffer@gmail.com

Blogs:
http://uxsoapbox.blogspot.com/
http://webspherecommunity.blogspot.com/

Comments made by Terry Bleizeffer

• Agile development and UX is an intriguing subject. On the o… [0 points]
• I reviewed this book on my blog as well: http://uxsoapbox.bl… [0 points]
• Any article that makes me laugh out loud is a-okay in my boo… [1 points]
• Very good article, though I disagree with one part of it (mo… [1 points]
• Giving this a little more thought, I suppose organizational … [1 points]
• I think this is a great topic - in fact, I've written a coup… [0 points]
• Very interesting article, Adam. I particularly liked the di… [3 points]
• Thanks for the encouragement, Christina. Does this qualify … [0 points]
• Seth - I really like that approach, because it helps to addr… [1 points]
• Seth - Would this be a live interview with managers or just … [1 points]
• Here's another game format that can be used, though it's fai… [1 points]
• Very good, practical advice. In particular, I've been tryin… [3 points]
• Henrik: There are many times when I work with a developer w… [1 points]
• Nice review. I loved this book as well. In the review I wr… [0 points]
• Regarding, abstraction and CLIs, we use a technique in our a… [2 points]
• David - I agree, I don't think CLIs are inherently less abst… [0 points]
• As the years go by, I become more and more convinced that "c… [2 points]
• Matthew: That's a good point about the inevitability of inf… [0 points]
• And that's probably a bell curve, because I think one of the… [0 points]
• Keith - Your comment about the change conference made me chu… [0 points]
• Simon: I see your point, but the other important part of Mat… [0 points]
• Karl - That's a great example of how the end user is only on… [0 points]
• Thanks for the article, Anthony. As I am in the process of … [5 points]
• @ Todd: Are you talking about coding skills that allow a de… [0 points]
• At the risk of over-commenting, there's another area where I… [1 points]
• "One issue raised is that some older people are set in their… [1 points]
• This is a really interesting topic and you raise some good p… [1 points]
• Are there any plans to post the presentations from these tal… [0 points]
• @Justin : There's a large banner in the hallway of my kids' … [0 points]
• @Anthony: Another good article. Lots of good points there,… [1 points]