Been away, haven’t had time to post. Today I came across Deborah Mayhew’s piece on ‘UXers – Who Are We Anyway?’, arguing against the UX Unicorn. But her background reminded me to complete the History of UX — with respect
UX Core Competencies
I frequently kill time on Quora, looking at what questions are being asked about UX. There are an annoying amount of ‘What is the absolute least amount of effort I have to put forth to become an expert in UX
Top 7 Dangers of Amateur UX
Amateur UX can lead to half-assed UX. And these common mistakes: 1. Tend to copy designs inappropriately – mostly out of context. A radial menu for a touchscreen loses the benefit when it’s on a mouse & keyboard interface. What works
What the Hell is a Full-Stack UX Designer?
I just changed my tagline today from ‘UX Professional’ to ‘Full-Stack UX Professional’. Partly because I haven’t done any new posts in a while; partly because of job application rejections thank you’s with the vague ‘not what my client was looking
Windows 10 First Impressions
I watched the videos, and installed the tech preview on a virtual machine. For the most part, it seems that Windows 10 has finally caught up to Windows 8 + Start8 & ModernMix. When I first heard about the strategy for
History of UX, Part 2
UX is a “big tent” field; people get into it from a variety of backgrounds–but mostly three: psychology, computer science, and design. My first post on History of UX, I showed how UX goes back to Applied Psychology and the application
What can UX learn from Applied Psychology?
Last post, I proposed that UX is just specialized Applied Psychology. If that’s so, what can modern UX learn from Applied Psychology? Stepping back, what is Applied Psychology? A smart-ass answer would be: it is the application of psychology… then
History of UX, Part 1
Here I start to discuss one of the issues that got me writing on UX in the first place. Having been in the field quite a while, I get peeved reading about how UX is a new (or relatively new) field.
SXSW 2014 Trip Report
SXSW Interactive 2015 is two months away… you can still get a discount on registration. I will dust off some useful content to get my blog going — this was a trip report for my team at work to highlight some
What’s In a Name
One of the arguments UX’ers love to have is about job titles. It’s up there with ‘defining the damn thing’, ‘UX vs. UI’, ‘should designers code’, ‘should designers draw’, ‘do I need a UX portfolio’ (I bought into that one), ‘what’s