I changed my tagline… don’t worry, I’m still a full-stack UX professional.. Working for a company 80% dependent on the price of oil, I should expect cyclical downturns and restructuring. Thanks fracking and OPEC! But anyway, my organization didn’t really get
History of UX, Part 3
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