One of the big issues with in person user testing is that people lie to you. Not in the sense that they want to hide something from you but rather that they don’t want to hurt your feelings. There are a lot of techniques to combat this; but I’d like to share with you one of my favorite questions that really allow your users to open up to you: “Let’s pretend this is baseball....

I stumbled across this post from my old (and now defunct) tumblr account today. It is dated June 23, 2012, right after I graduated from Stanford to begin working on the startup I will be leaving on August 30, 2013. As I take some steps away from the shore and safety of the bay area I think it’s appropriate to repost. -———————————————————- Tomorrow marks a beginning for my current fledgling startup....

I helped co-found a startup a little under two years ago while I was finishing my senior year of college. There were highs, lows and everything in between. I have journeyed deep into the bowels of iOS, gained some hard won operations wisdom, and improved as a programmer. I have found myself in many a pitch presentation, demos, and customers front offices. All in all it’s been a good ride. I’m leaving for reasons I do not wish to write about extensively on the internet, but it boils down to being unhappy with some management decisions that I cannot agree with....

Let’s do this!!!! I’ve been itching to make a game for the iPhone for a few years now and I’m finally ready to take the plunge. I’m going to be updating this blog regularly, hopefully weekly, to keep everyone updated and to keep me honest. I haven’t found too many detailed accounts of the creation of an iphone game online so I hope it will give some insight to future game makers....

I landed my first programming internship the summer of my sophomore year of college through a combination of dumb luck, an interesting portfolio, being able to speak business rather than just “nerd”, and a spectacularly bad technical interview. I still remember how nervous I felt walking into the in-person interviews, the hot shame I felt when I failed to answer a pretty simple technical question, and the shock of surprise when I was hired....