Pleasure and Pain

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Entries Tagged as 'Startups'

Introducing StartUXs

August 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Consulting, Startups

I’m very excited to be the guest author on this week’s 52weeksofUX, a blog by Josh Porter and Josh Brewer, two people I greatly admire.

My topic is the increasingly crucial role that user experience design plays in the success of a startup. I called the piece StartUXs (get it? startups with an X instead of [...]

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When You Startup With UX

July 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Articles

On Wednesday, UX Magazine published my article, When You Startup with UX — a look into how a few successful startups are integrating user experience practices.
I posed 5 questions to 5 people (4 folks at 3 different startups and 1 venture capitalist) to find out how they think about UX and what it means [...]

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ReadWriteWeb on my Boxee beta UX process, and other thoughts

January 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Articles, Pleasure, User Experience

On Wednesday I posted an extensive behind-the-scenes look at the user experience design process I used when Boxee hired me to help them get from alpha to beta: The UX Design Process for the Boxee Beta.
To my utter joy, ReadWriteWeb featured my work in their ReadWriteStart channel, focused on startups: An Inside Look Into Boxee’s [...]

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The UX Design Process for the Boxee Beta

January 27th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Consulting, Design, User Experience

More than a year ago I very proudly announced that Boxee, the much-loved social media center software company, had hired me as the user experience designer for their beta. In the five months that I worked with them, I conducted user interviews and usability testing to identify people’s needs, behaviors and frustrations, and redesigned the [...]

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NY Tech Meetup: The European Edition

January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Events

Last night, Dawn Barber and Meetup.com CEO and co-founder Scott Heiferman hosted a special edition of NY Tech Meetup at Meetup HQ.
NY Tech Meetup: European Edition gave 11 startups from all over Europe the chance to wow us tough New Yorkers with 3-minute demos of their webapps. The companies are all 2009 winners of [...]

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