Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'User Experience'

How Little You Really Know

February 26th, 2010 · Comments · Pain, Research, User Experience

You have no idea how little your users really know. And that shows just how little you know.
You work in technology for a living. You’ve been using a computer since you were born. You are obsessed with learning new things. You are a nerd and you hang out with other nerds. You constantly think about [...]

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My Top 10 User Experience Blogs to Watch in 2010 on Blogs.com

February 26th, 2010 · Comments · Blogging, Pleasure, User Experience

Last April I had the honor of contributing a guest list on the 10 Best UX (User Experience) Design blogs [the list, my blog post] for Six Apart’s Blogs.com.
I still regularly read almost all of the blogs I listed, but recently realized that there are many new, revamped or lesser known UX blogs that really [...]

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Photo of the day: Bags on Board

February 23rd, 2010 · Comments · Photography, User Experience

My cousins have an adorable Boston Terrier named Luna. She likes to play tug of war, and fetch, and tear her toys apart. And unlike the dogs I had growing up, she also likes to poop outside.
Over the summer my cousins were taking Luna for a walk and I noticed their completely amazing leash.

Made by [...]

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UIE Virtual Seminar with Tamara Adlin: Ad-Hoc Personas

February 22nd, 2010 · Comments · Education

User Interface Engineering (UIE) hosts wonderful virtual seminars every month on a variety of UX-related topics. This month was no exception. Tamara Adlin, a user experience consultant based in Seattle, WA, put together a smart and practical presentation titled, The Power of Ad Hoc Personas: Truly Practical Methods to Get Your Organization On the Same [...]

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Pleasure and Pain now on UX Magazine

February 17th, 2010 · Comments · Articles, Pleasure

I am happy to announce that starting today, some of my posts on this here blog will be syndicated to UX Magazine.
UX Magazine is an online publication for user experience professionals that was founded in 2006 and was nominated for a Webby in 2007. In their words:
Every month we combine original articles with the best [...]

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