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 [Keep Reading…]
WordPress 2.8 is released
I use WordPress to power this blog so I always like to take a close look at new versions to see if they will help or hurt my workflow. Over a year ago I wrote extensively about WordPress 2.5, which was a drastic overhaul of all aspects of the admin tool. I failed to write [Keep Reading…]
Photo of the day: 12 Gay Street
Today’s photo comes courtesy of my friend Mike Singleton over at drop.io. This door is at 12 Gay Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. According to Mike, this sign on the front door (DANGER!! NO INTERIOR FLOORS!!) is the only sign that there’s any construction going on inside or around the building. It’s [Keep Reading…]
Your target market cannot be everyone
One of the first things I ask prospective clients is to specify their target audiences. Nine times out of ten they’re sure to respond, “We want to appeal to everyone!” I give the same response to them all: Try to make your product for everyone and you’ll appeal to no one. If a company doesn’t [Keep Reading…]
Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings
I’m furious. Absolutely astounded and ready to scream. Why? Because Twitter just announced a drastic change to their service that will forever affect how people interact with the stream. They have effectively removed all discoverability of new people to follow and connect with, thereby destroying the very element that made Twitter the powerful networking tool [Keep Reading…]
Twitter’s confirmation message is a usability fail
Folks know that I use this blog to call out poor user experiences, and often I’ll get requests from people to discuss a particular usability failure that gets their goat. Recently my friend Michael Gruen asked me to talk about Twitter’s relatively new design for confirmation messages, a white bar that runs along the top [Keep Reading…]
My Top 10 User Experience Design Blogs on Blogs.com
Wendy Taylor, editor of Six Apart‘s Blogs.com, recently got in touch to see if I’d be interested in being a guest author to create a list of the 10 Best User Experience Design Blogs. Of course I jumped at the chance. Mindful of this honor and opportunity, I was very careful about the blogs that [Keep Reading…]
10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design — the presentation
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…]
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…]
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