Pleasure and Pain

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Entries Tagged as 'Books'

My UX Bookshelf featured in Usability News

December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · User Experience

Thanks to Joanna Bawa, editor, for featuring my UX Bookshelf on Usability News. They linked to my list of The 10 Best Books on User Experience on Flashlight Worthy Books.
Thanks to John Yamasaki for pointing it out.
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My UX Bookshelf on Flashlight Worthy Books

November 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · User Experience

In July I posted the books on my UX bookshelf.
Then a couple months ago I received an email from Peter Steinberg, a product development guy with a lot of cool experience who reads and enjoys this little blog. He recently launched a site called Flashlight Worthy — a hand-picked book recommendation site — and asked [...]

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UX Bookshelf

July 19th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Design, User Experience

In the right sidebar of my blog I promote my UX Bookshelf. I use Amazon Associates just to get the smallest kickback (I’ve never actually made any money with this, but I’d like to!). The other day I noticed that they have a new carousel widget (released in April) that allows you to display up [...]

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Update on Amazon’s TextBuyIt

April 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Pleasure

As you may have read on Wednesday, I bought a book through Amazon’s new service TextBuyIt. I was really impressed by the user flow and was able to buy the book I was looking for in about two minutes.
Even more incredible is that the book showed up at my house yesterday morning, just two [...]

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links for 2008-02-25

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Linkage

MAKE: Blog: Macbook air – yes, it can be laser etched
Mine cost way too much to irreversibly decorate, but perhaps you’d like to put a monkey on your Air.
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Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the U.S.
Is Facebook app spam driving users away? I certainly don’t use it as much
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