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
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
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
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
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