Pleasure and Pain

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Entries Tagged as 'User Experience'

Twitter Redesigns Follower and Following Pages

July 1st, 2009 · Comments · Design, Twitter, User Experience

Today Twitter launched a redesign of the Following and Followers pages.
By default the Expanded view is displayed, but you can switch to the List view in the top left:

It’ll still show you 20 people per page, but without the location and last tweet sent.

On the right side of each username are two buttons: a Follow [...]

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So you wanna be a user experience designer — Step 1: Resources

June 30th, 2009 · Comments · User Experience

Pretty much every single day I get a tweet, email, or in person request for information on how to get started in the field of user experience. I’ve recently had a few people reach out to me even asking me to mentor them throughout the process. Given that I often find myself repeating the same [...]

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An Event Apart Boston was wicked good

June 25th, 2009 · Comments · User Experience

I had the immense pleasure of presenting at An Event Apart in Boston on Monday. My talk titled DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (without calling in a pro) got a lot of great responses.
Here are just a few:

And I really loved this one:

It’s so amazing when you can have an impact on people’s [...]

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Ultra Light User Experience

June 25th, 2009 · Comments · Events, User Experience

A couple months ago Graham Lawlor asked me to be on the July panel for Ultra Light Startups, a group of entrepreneurs who collaborate to help each other launch startups quicker and cheaper.
Their events have a unique format. As Graham describes it, “The first hour is ‘introductions by elevator pitch’ where people give a [...]

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Here at An Event Apart Boston

June 22nd, 2009 · Comments · Conferences, User Experience

After a lovely Father’s Day brunch, I hopped the train up to Boston for An Event Apart. I’ll be presenting a brand new talk tomorrow titled DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (without calling in a pro). You can read more about it in my previous blog post.
I gotta admit I’m pretty damn nervous, [...]

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