I recently edited an article for UX Magazine (When You Startup with UX) in which I interviewed four startups on what User Experience means to them.
Of all the things that people said, the quote that stood out to me the most was from Mike Singleton, a developer at Foursquare:
“…when you only have three users, but [...]
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In a previous life, I was a Professional Writing major and part-time journalist. I contributed to my school’s student newspaper, as well as the faculty and staff newspaper, and almost every week for two years, I wrote an arts column for the Pittsburgh City Paper — Western PA’s leading alternative newsweekly [read my old clips]. [...]
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Hotel alarm clocks are usually a big pain in the butt. Hampton Inn aims to fix all that — and takes simplicity to inconceivable levels.
They go so far past easy to use and intuitive that they come back around to obscure and pointless.
They visualize musical genres.
Columns for Classical
Stream for Soft Rock
Cows for Country
Cadillac for Oldies
Bleachers [...]
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Tags:Design·Gadgetry·Pain·Photography·User Experience
I’m honored to be joining Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin on tomorrow’s episode of The Big Web Show. Tune in at 1pm ET as they interview me live about all things user experience. Nothing scripted, nothing planned — just uncensored, unadulterated UX pleasure.
If you can’t make it during that time, the video and podcast will [...]
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Tags:Pleasure·Speaking·User Experience