Article on Technology Stagnation from MIT Technology Review caught my eye, on further read it confirms a lot of fears re: What are we really making, and Why? The article summarizes a new book The Rise and Fall of American
Designing for Millennials
Summary: don’t design for Millennials; design for millennials’ tasks and you’ll likely find they’re universal. Since I changed my work email, I haven’t been getting the NNG Alertbox, I checked it out today and found an interesting article about millennials.
Apple UX Pioneers on How Apple is Destroying Design
This isn’t the first usability critique of Apple from Don Norman, but now it’s Tog helping out. Which is significant, since Bruce Tognazzini founded the Apple Human Interface Group as Apple employee #66. Norman was User Experience Architect and VP of the
Fun with Job Postings
I love the calls from spec recruiters, when I can understand their speech. (BTW, No, I do not want a 6 month contract in Bentonville AR — I get that one every week.) I had to laugh at this posting
The Other Unicorn
There are two unicorns in UX. Or maybe one Two-nicorn. We all know and love the discussions about the interaction+visual design+front-end coder. As I’m looking for new work, I’m coming across a number of position descriptions for Product Manager with requirements
My Favorite Methods: Experience Maps
I have had a lot of success with Experience Maps, also known as Customer Journeys. It’s really a way to re-introduce systems thinking to those who don’t have that mindset from human factors engineering. You have to think of the product
Recommended Music – September 2015
I DJ on KSYM 90.1 FM in San Antonio once a month, Americana roots music type stuff. Saturday was my September shift (warning: it was Talk Like A Pirate Day). I thought I’d highlight some of the new releases I’d recommend. Keith Richards has
Looking for New Opportunities
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