Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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Old Guard Versus New Guard: An Interview by Tom Johnson

June 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Community, Industry

While at STC Summit in Dallas a month ago, Tom Johnson, a technical writer for the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, asked if he could interview me for his blog I’d Rather Be Writing.
From Tom’s blog post:

In this videocast, I talk with Whitney Hess at the STC Summit in Dallas about her perspective on [...]

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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.
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Photo of the day: Kickin’ It Old School

February 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Photography

I’ve been riding Amtrak a lot lately, and I’ve seen a lot of businesspeople with their laptops and USB modems and BlackBerrys and bluetooth headsets. That has become the norm, even among the baby boomers. So much so that I had to do a double-take when I saw this sweet guy kickin’ it old school:

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Photo of the day: 12 Gay Street

May 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Photography, User Experience

Today’s photo comes courtesy of my friend Mike Singleton over at drop.io.

This door is at 12 Gay Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. According to Mike, this sign on the front door (DANGER!! NO INTERIOR FLOORS!!) is the only sign that there’s any construction going on inside or around the building. It’s a [...]

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Photo of the day: Elevator in Use By Peabody Ducks

May 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Branding, Photography

Talk about being on brand. The Peabody Hotel never misses a beat when it comes to their world-renowned ducks.
This is the sign they put in front of the center elevator just before the March of the Ducks. It’s so freakin’ cute and something you’d never see anywhere else that I just had to share.
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