Ok fine, yes - I am Brandon Corbin. I'm an insanely passionate product designer who is as subtle as a sledge hammer. Based in Indianapolis, I focus professionally on User Experience, Mobile Design and eCommerce Design.
Usability job board. UXJobs.org
Looking for a career in usability, user experience or heuristics analysis? UXJobs.org focuses 100% on connecting companies who are passionate about the user experience, with designers/developers and analysts who share that same passion. Are you a company looking for the best user experience guru in your state? By advertising your job on UXJobs.org, your opening [...]
The world is just… awesome commercial
One of my favorite commercials by Discovery.
Printfu 4.0 – PDF search rises again.
While I was reorganizing my servers this weekend, I decided to move Printfu to my new cloud server setup, as well as give it a new interface and advertising channels. I ultimately decided to dropped the ugly Google Adwords for my more profitable Amazon Product Advertising ads, and rewrote the entire searching algorithm. PrintFu has [...]
Getting things done, $5 at a time. Fiverr.com
What would you do for $5? Me, I wouldn’t do much for Old Abe, so when I stumbled on Fiverr.com – I loved its uniqueness but immediately proclaimed “this, will never work!”. I couldn’t image people would do “good” work for $4 (fiverr.com keeps a $1 for each order). But then I tried it… whoa, [...]
FlickrIt! Realtime stream of flickr – a challenge
The results of my latest challenge – a Flickr Streaming app with no javascript libraries (except json2.js)
Open letter to Steve Jobs. You broke my heart today.
Dear Mr. Jobs, Just today I was planning on using Titanium to build an iPhone App for live blogging – then I read the new iPhone SDK Terms and Conditions. I’m now officially looking to replace my iPhone with the Nexus One – and developing purely for the Android Platform. I can’t believe you forced [...]
Send an anonymous Tweet to any Twitter User
Have you ever wanted to send an anonymous message to a Twitter user? Well come to find out, Listy.me is a great way to do it. I didn’t intend for this to be the case, but since it works – I figured why not roll with it. Try it out: Send an Anonymous Twitter message [...]
The Listy API – sorta
Here are the steps for interacting with Posts via JSON and XML. I hope to release a more complete API in the next month or so. Read a list as XML or JSON Each listy can be read in either HTML, XML or JSON Use this post as an example http://listy.me/4671ad As JSON http://listy.me/4671ad.json As [...]
Building a media center for less than 500 bucks
I have built personal media centers / tivo alternatives for the last 10 years, and finally the internet backbone, home internet speeds and services like Boxee.tv,Hulu and Netflix has made it possible to fully enjoy web based content from the comfort of your couch. Below is a list of my most recent media center setup [...]
5 Cool Usability folks to follow on Twitter
5 Cool Usability folks to follow on Twitter @IATV Jan Jursa from Prague @janepyle Jane Pyle focusing on iPad and iPhone @dav_hamill David Hamill UX who loves to bike @usabilitygal Usability Gal who loves baking cakes. @dburka Daniel Burka from Tiny Speck Share a List with Listy.me
3 web apps I’ll swear by.
3 must use web apps by @brandoncorbin Dropbox http://getdropbox.com – I use DropBox more than any other application – without really using it. Dropbox is like one of those little thumb drive, but online. 2 GB of space for free. You install the app on any computer you have, and boom there are your files. [...]
Making Organic Ice Cream – a Listy Embed Test
Make Your Own Organic Vanilla Ice Cream Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker $44.95 Buy @Amazon Organic 1% Milk (1 cup) Organic Heavy Whipping Cream (2 cups) Organic Sugar (3/4 cup) Organic Vanilla Extract (2 teaspoons) * Using whisk, blend sugar and milk for 2 minutes. Stir in heavy cream and vanilla. Pour mixture into machine and [...]
Listy.me idea vs. reality
In a post a few weeks ago I begged my future self to not give up on my List Sharing idea, a bit.ly for Lists - Listy.me is the result. The first beta version is officially out in the crowd, and I’m really happy with the result – while it’s far from perfect or complete, it’s [...]
About Me
People call me Brandon Corbin, and I usually respond. I'm a crazy passionate product guy who obsesses about usability, software architecture and product marketing.
