Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Props'

Pleasure and Pain in Other Languages

July 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Pleasure

Receiving a request from someone who wants to translate your blog posts into other languages is thrilling and humbling. It’s such an honor to know that these pieces resonate with anyone at all — but to find out that they cross geographical and cultural barriers is truly amazing!
Here are some of the translations I know [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:··

Awesome Email of the Day: How Little You Really Know

June 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · E-mails, Pleasure

Back in February, I wrote a blog post titled How Little You Really Know. If you haven’t read it, go check it out now.
I got the below email in response, and have kept it in my inbox as a reminder of why I do what I do.
It’s a few months late, but I wanted to [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:···

Sketchnotes from UK UPA’s UX Clinic

June 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Events, Pleasure, User Experience

Like I mentioned in my post on UX London, I also had the pleasure of being on a UK UPA panel with Dave Gray, Jeff Patton, and Stephen Anderson titled UX Clinic. We spent about two hours answering the audience’s questions — some previously submitted and some on the fly. It was a blast.
Eva-Lotta Lamm [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:····

My Creating a Culture of UX workshop at UX London

May 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Conferences, User Experience

To say I had a blast at UX London would be a lie. Not because it wasn’t amazing, but because I didn’t actually attend any of it outside of my own workshop.
Some may have thought I was out and about exploring London instead of attending other speakers’ sessions. Quite false. Where I really was: trapped [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:·····

My 20 Guiding Principles for UX Design on Monster.com’s InsideTech

March 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Articles

Last month I mentioned that UX Magazine would now be syndicating some of the content from Pleasure and Pain. A couple weeks ago they republished my Guiding Principles for UX Designers post, which then in turn got picked up by Monster.com’s InsideTech, a “meeting place for IT professionals.”

The article has more than 2,600 views in [...]

[Read more →]

Tags:····

Also on Pleasure and Pain