What is this blog?

Diana J. Wynne is a practical product designer with 15 years of experience developing successful software and innovative interactive content.

I've worked on well-known software like Macromedia Director and Flash, Kid Pix, and Timbuktu; designed profitability maximizers, hematology tools, social shopping neighborhoods, Leapster games featuring Disney princesses, and mobile productivity tools for priests; and have a special affinity for cross-disciplinary work. I've also produced a feature documentary on James Joyce, traveled to more than 40 states and countries, and lost by a single question to a five-time champion on "Jeopardy!"

I subscribe to the highest standards of journalistic ethics and never accept free products or services in exchange for coverage of any kind. I buy my own airline tickets, laptops, subscriptions, and coffee presses, and always disclose any potentially compromising personal or professional relationship.

These are my irregular musings on design and usability.

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Why chestnutdrive?

When I was a child, my grandparents lived at 7 Chestnut Drive in a big old Tudor house. It was their first detached home in the suburbs, the house where my mother and uncle grew up and later where I watched Bozo the clown and the moon landing and learned to read.

Chestnut Drive symbolized my family's success in the world, a time and place where everyone had been happy and together. Home, in the truest sense of the word.