In early January I wrote an article for Mashable titled “10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design” in which I asked 20 of the most prominent leaders in the user experience community what they think is the biggest misunderstanding about what we do. I was blown away by the response to the article — [Keep Reading…]
An Event Apart Boston Schedule Now Online
In January I announced that I have the honor of speaking at An Event Apart in Boston (June 22-23) and Chicago (October 12-13). The complete schedule for the Boston AEA has just been published, along with my session info: DIY UX: 5 Ways to Give Your Users an Upgrade (Without Calling In a Pro) Have [Keep Reading…]
Photo of the day: Unattended Kids
This one wasn’t exactly a submission (I asked for it), but like yesterday’s it was snapped by someone other than me — the luminous Andrew Hinton. While we were in Memphis for the IA Summit, Andrew was enjoying a meal at the Flying Fish when he spotted this sign. WE LOVE KIDS, BUT PLEASE KEEP [Keep Reading…]
Improved “Freelance to Agency” podcast
We’ve not got a much clearer sounding podcast from our panel “From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small,” which I participated in at SXSW. Now with significantly enhanced audio quality, courtesy of Zoomy.net’s Peter Richardson, here, for your consideration and pleasure, is the new! improved! audio recording of “From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, [Keep Reading…]
Twitter tweaks the homepage, again
A month ago I wrote about Twitter finally integrating Twitter Search into their homepage by adding a search box and the Top 10 Trends to the nav bar. Now it’s been redesigned yet again. The search box has been moved to the right sidebar, along with the trends listed out (instead of hiding in a [Keep Reading…]
Old news: UX in the mainstream
Last summer when I was watching American Idol or some such thing, I walked into the kitchen during a commercial break but was quickly drawn back when this caught my ear: “The fun part is taking complex technology and making it easy to use for customers.” — Jason Johnson, UI designer for the Ford Focus [Keep Reading…]
Twitter FINALLY turns replies into mentions
My dreams have come true. Twitter has finally turned their Replies functionality into what they’re calling Mentions. For more than two years, replies consisted only of tweets that began with the person’s username, leaving us to search for ourselves to find all the other tweets where we were mere mentions. Now that Twitter has killed [Keep Reading…]
More great press on the boxee NYC meetup
Earlier this week I told you about the 600+ people that attended the boxee NYC meetup at Webster Hall on Tuesday. We’ve gotten some great press since then, and I wanted to share it. First, you can read boxee’s own recap of the event on their blog and check out TechSpank’s video coverage. Also: Boxee [Keep Reading…]
My presentation at IA Summit 2009: “Evangelizing Yourself”
At the IA Summit last year in Miami, the first that I attended, a few wonderful people encouraged me to submit a proposal for this year in Memphis. I was a total noob, and didn’t think it would be possible for me to be chosen to speak, but I decided to think of a topic [Keep Reading…]
IA Summit 2009: The Courage to Quit
At the IA Summit in Memphis I had the distinct pleasure of participating in a panel titled, “The Courage to Quit: Starting, Growing & Maintaining Your Own UX Business,” along with Sarah Rice, Chris Fahey and Jenn Anderson. Photo taken by John Yesko The description of the panel: Information Architects have an opportunity to structure [Keep Reading…]
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