Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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My Top 10 User Experience Blogs to Watch in 2010 on Blogs.com

February 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Pleasure, User Experience

Last April I had the honor of contributing a guest list on the 10 Best UX (User Experience) Design blogs [the list, my blog post] for Six Apart’s Blogs.com.
I still regularly read almost all of the blogs I listed, but recently realized that there are many new, revamped or lesser known UX blogs that really [...]


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Best of the Last Two Years

January 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blogging

I’ve published 447 blog posts over the past two years, but there are a few that really stick out in my mind. Some took a lot of research and analysis, some were important announcements, and others captured my wild emotions at pivotal moments in my personal and professional life.
Below you’ll find a list of my [...]


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Pleasure and Pain turns 2

January 11th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Blogging

I started this blog two years ago on January 10, 2008 with a post titled, Genesis. I didn’t know at the time just how fitting a word it was. It truly marked the beginning of my re-creation.
Since then I’ve published 447 posts (including this one), received 1,491 comments, and had 159,031 unique visitors.
The stats [...]


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Widgets on Pleasure and Pain

June 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blogging

A few weeks ago my lovely friend Livia Labate asked me what widgets I use in the sidebar of this blog. Since I thought it might be interesting information for everyone, I’m posting it here.
Twitter Widget

Google Calendar embed

Dopplr blog badge

Disqus recent comments widget

Amazon Carousel Widget

MyBlogLog Recent Readers Widget

Enjoy!
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WordPress 2.8 is released

June 11th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging, User Experience

I use WordPress to power this blog so I always like to take a close look at new versions to see if they will help or hurt my workflow. Over a year ago I wrote extensively about WordPress 2.5, which was a drastic overhaul of all aspects of the admin tool. I failed to write [...]


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