A couple months ago, the lovely Sharon Feder asked me if I would be interested in being a guest writer for Mashable. As I’m sure you can imagine, I jumped at the chance. I’ve been a fan of Mashable for a long, long time and kind of always hoped I’d get to write for them. [...]
Entries from January 10th, 2009
10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design
January 10th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Articles, User Experience
Are you new here? My top 10 posts
January 9th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Blogging
I’ve noticed a lot more traffic to my blog lately and a considerable number of new RSS subscribers. “Hi!” to any of you who are new here, and thanks for reading! It would be great to get to know some of you, so please to introduce yourselves in the comments and let me know how [...]
Tags:Blogging
Video of Dan Saffer’s talk “Tap is the New Click” at IxDA NYC
January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Design, Events, User Experience
In September, I posted my notes from Dan Saffer’s fantastic talk “Tap is the New Click” at the monthly IxDA NYC event. R/GA, the hosts, filmed and edited a video of the presentation, which has now been made available on Vimeo.
If you are interested in gestural interfaces or designing kiosks, tablets, or any non-keyboard-and-mouse devices, [...]
boxee now in public alpha
January 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Consulting, User Experience
So you know I’m the UX consultant for boxee, right? Well they’ve been in private, invite-only alpha since June, and already they have 200,000 users.
Today at CES they announced a new version available to the public. That means you no longer need an invite to get in. With the new version comes a bunch [...]
Tags:Consulting·Design·Pleasure·Startups·User Experience·Video
A year of Twitter statistics
January 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Twitter
Twitter Counter tracks your number of followers over time
TweetStats shows trends by day of the week and time of day (proof that I do sleep)
and who receives the most replies (this surprised me)
What I’ve said the most (happy to see that “thanks” is up there)
Xefer also looks at tweets by time of day and day [...]
