Category : User Experience

How I landed in UX: My defining moment

I wrote most of this back in April. I returned to it today and thought I’d finish it out. Thi...

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Big D: Mobile Design at the Speed of Thought

Another live blogging post from the Big Design Conference. We don’t think about it as it’s seco...

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Big D: Alphabet Soup: Skills Development

Here’s my notes from the Big Design Conference’s Alphabet Soup talk put on by Joe Dyer. ...

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Summary of the Whole Not Parts

I’ve found lately when I have interviewed for Mobile UX positions that I find I cannot answer ...

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Addictions: Turntable.fm

I’ve recently discovered two new start up created applications which have me absolutely addict...

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Results Don’t Need a Name

I was thinking tonight as I prepared to go out for the evening that I have often struggled to define...

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IDEA – The Best is the Enemy of Good: Magic & Design

Reed and Jared did an absolutely fabulous job with this very pointed talk about the similarities bet...

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When Fundraising Fails

I wouldn’t normally utilize this space for such a thing but I am finding my back against the p...

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UX Video of the Week: Sketching & Paper Prototyping

“I haven’t done a wireframe in 2 years.” starts Todd Zaki Warfel in his talk abou...

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UX Video of the Week: When Games Invade Real Life

Games are invading the real world — and the runaway popularity of Farmville and Guitar Hero i...

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UX Video of the Week: Sketch a Move

Sketch-a-Move from Superflux on Vimeo. I’ve missed a couple weeks due to deadlines at work bu...

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Part 1 – SF IxDA Redux: Meaningful Innovation Relies on Interaction and Service Design

Keynote originally presented by Nathan Shedroff at the IxDA conference in Savanna, Georgia in Februa...

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UX Video of the Week: Being Human is NOT Quantifiable

If you don’t know Jeff Parks, you should. A former cognitive rehab therapist, Jeff, is now an ...

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An Everyday Reminder of Donald Norman

I think of Donald Norman everyday when I walk into the executive conference room. There’s a g...

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Who’s Experience is it Anyway?

I have gotten asked a lot in interviews lately. “So what are you? Do you consider yourself IA ...

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Change up the Experience

As a designer, I am responsible for the experiences I create for my users. Whether creating a fina...

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Digital Road Signs

I was watching Top Gear on the BBC and they were discussing the design of the road signs for the hi...

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Rethinking my Blog: Girls & Games

I came home today from playing soccer, injured.  If you know me, then you know that is not all that...

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A Week in Twitter

What I learn from following UX Designers on Twitter: User’s Brain vs Your Design – A Bri...

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Social Media is Not a Solution

Lately I have noticed an increase in the amount of requests for “Social Media UX DesignersR...

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