Gregory Robleto

Why You Should Vote Rock the Forms to SXSW

Greg — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:32:17 +0000

This is my first panel submission for SXSW Interactive, and I’d like to quickly sate why I think you should vote for it. Rock Web Form Design like an 80s Hair Band Have you ever listened to some music while your working and found the symphony of ideas. You were just thinking that there were too many [...]

Missteps of the Innovator

Greg — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:12:04 +0000

As I finished reading The Innovators Dilemma, by Clayton M. Christensen, and I was charged up. I became aware of a successful path on integrating innovation into a large company, and I realized with new clarity how close my company had come in our own efforts, and where we misstepped. Some of the main takeaways are: The [...]

Awesome new White House Flickr photos

Greg — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:39:58 +0000

See, if it wasn’t for Flickr, I would never have known that our President takes meetings with pirates. I would support the initiative to have more transparency in government anyway, but I love how this new administration is using social media to provide these views inside the Oval Office. On Flickr they are literally providing views inside [...]

My GTDIQ quiz results

Greg — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:56:08 +0000

Having read David Allen’s Getting Things Done and Making It All Work, having the Mastering Workflow diagram up in my cube, having a clean inbox and an active to-do list, I thought I would be closer to the upper-right Captain and Commander area. But apparently I am still too quick to respond to urgent (in [...]

SXSW Takeaways

Greg — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:31:11 +0000

#post-247 div { font-size: 16px; } A group of us Fools attended the 2009 South by Southwest Interactive conference; here is the slide deck of a few of the learnings and ideas that we took away. What Users Want A fast food industry wanted to increase the sales of milkshakes, so they put out a poll as to when and [...]

Cool As Buttons at SXSW

Greg — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:28:10 +0000

As an homage to my closing line in the great movie by Tom Crenshaw at SXSWi 08, Selena designed this button (right) of what I have heard called “the cutest little poo ever.” I also heard it called “the best button at South by” which made me very proud of my talented designer wife. I [...]

SXSW Notebook

Greg — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:08:37 +0000

Over the past two SXSWi conferences I have taken copious detailed notes on the laptop, and been uninspired to do much sifting through them once I got home. (I think I made this one blog post). This year, I bought a nice new unlined notebook and pen and went the old-fashioned route of taking notes [...]

I’m gonna find me a damn hippo

Greg — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:17:07 +0000

I am really sucked in by the simple marketing / brand exposure campaign from the Canadian based mortgage community company, Smart Hippo. They are setting up a Twitter-based Scavenger hunt, leaving clues on their feed to find one of these stuffed hippos (pictured). I love scavenger hunts and immediately without thinking twice set to follow [...]

Off to SXSWi

Greg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:59:15 +0000

For the next week, I’ll be making my annual pilgrimage to Austin, TX for the South by Southwest Interactive conference. This week of panels and networking is a yearly renewal of my passion for great design and reaffirmation that I want to (continue to try to) be a great web designer. To find me in [...]

Objective: I want the job you are trying to fill

Greg — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:20:18 +0000

Here’s a resume writing tip: be specific in your objective; and (if you can do so without being disingenuous) express that you don’t just want a job, you want THAT job. I looked through fifteen resumes tonight trying to find the best candidate to fill a Production Designer position. Each resume presented numerous positive attributes [...]