From middle school through college, I was obsessed with Starbucks. Five-times-a-week obsessed. Then five years ago I realized that I was spending $1,500 a year on coffee, quit cold turkey, and haven’t had a drop since.
Part of me also hated the evil empire it has become. In middle school when the first Starbucks opened [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Pleasure'
The NEW Frappuccino: however-you-want-it
May 12th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Customer Experience, Pleasure
Being a godmother is like being a user experience designer
May 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Pleasure, Strategy, User Experience
On April 18, 2010, Griffin James Lam Konig was born at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasett, NY, weighing in at 7 lbs 13 oz.
Griffin’s mom Donna is the 39-year-old daughter of my childhood babysitter Theresa (who I’ve always called T-T).
The day after Griffin came home from the hospital, twenty-seven years after Theresa welcomed [...]
Reaching outside the UX tribe at STC’s Technical Communication Summit
May 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Career, Community, Conferences, Pleasure
In Transcending Our Tribe, my closing plenary at this year’s Information Architecture Summit, I asserted that in order for the field of user experience to survive, we need to stop spending so much time looking inwards, and start reaching out to the larger business and technical communities.
Because I’m a big fan of practicing what I [...]
Tags:Career·Community·Conferences·History·Organizations·Pleasure·Speaking·User Experience
Holy crap…I gave the closing plenary at IA Summit 2010
May 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Career, Conferences, Pleasure
Thirty days later and it has still barely sunken in that I gave the closing plenary at IA Summit 2010 in Phoenix, AZ, titled Transcending Our Tribe. Being bestowed with this tremendous honor was a shock in and of itself, but having actually survived the months of preparation, the intense trepidation, and the profound duration [...]
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 [...]
