Design - Whitney Hess

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Whit Hour – Week 12

August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 35 people who showed up for the twelfth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me.
Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.livestream.com/whithour (new location!).
Whit [...]

Whit Hour – Week 10

July 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 35 people who showed up for the tenth week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me.
Tune in every Monday night from 10-11pm Eastern Time at http://www.justin.tv/whitneyhess.
Whit Hour – [...]

Photo of the day: Visualizing Genres

June 17th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Gadgetry, Pain, Photography, User Experience

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 [...]

Photo of the day: Back in 30 minutes

June 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Customer Experience, Design, Pain, Photography

Time has always bothered me; I don’t really believe in it. It’s a human invention, a representation of reality. Now the passage of time, that’s something I can believe in. You can feel it. You can measure it. But it’s always, ALWAYS, relative to something else. Like when you’re in the train station waiting for [...]