Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Pleasure'

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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Sketching made easier by UI Stencils

February 22nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Design, Pleasure, Productivity

Yes, I’m obsessed with Konigi’s Omnigraffle wireframe stencils, but what if you could have real-life stencils to help you sketch? You can. They’re called UI Stencils, and they’re made by Design Commission, an experience design agency in Seattle.

Drawing can be intimidating for a lot of folks, and the fear of not being a “good drawer” [...]


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Pleasure and Pain now on UX Magazine

February 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Articles, Pleasure

I am happy to announce that starting today, some of my posts on this here blog will be syndicated to UX Magazine.
UX Magazine is an online publication for user experience professionals that was founded in 2006 and was nominated for a Webby in 2007. In their words:
Every month we combine original articles with the best [...]


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Steal inspiration from everywhere

February 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Design, Pleasure

My friend Paul Isakson recently posted this great quotation by Jim Jarmusch, the indie filmmaker (Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes, Ghost Dog).
His words so beautifully capture something I’ve felt for a long time, and I wanted to share it with all of you.

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that
resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
Devour [...]


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My Happy Cog Avatar Has Arrived

February 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Branding, Pleasure

I’ve been consulting for Happy Cog for a year and a half, but when this arrived in my inbox yesterday, I became a true Happy Cogger.

Many thanks to Kevin Cornell for creating it. Everyone at Happy Cog has one of these cuties, and now I do, too.
So what do you think…does it look like me?
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