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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Author Archives: Chris Heisel
NYTimes’ ‘wide angle targeting’ good and bad
An article on CNet today focuses on, what I think, is the next logical step in online advertising. They report that the New York Times is planning to implement a program that would track what content users access and deliver … Continue reading
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A refreshing viewpoint
George Oleson wrote a piece for Boxes and Arrows that provides a refreshing view of information architecture and user-centered design. It’s one of the first times I’ve heard an user experience person say “focusing exclusively on users like this is … Continue reading
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Bigger is better
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the New York Times is planning to have larger banner ads on its site. courtesy of the Wall Street Journal The new banner ads will take up about half the page on most … Continue reading
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It’s alive!
As you can see, my Web site has finally gotten it’s facelift. The new, all-CSS all the time design is up. The Moveable Type back end is in place. And, most dear to my heart, all of my Web and … Continue reading
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Blast from the past
I’ve got MP3s playing on my computer and I’m working on reconstructing an old front page of themaneater.com for my online clipbook. It’s like it’s 1998 all over again — the year I was online production manager at The Maneater. … Continue reading
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