I’m home from the IA Summit in Baltimore and am still processing what a great event it was! (And I’m already chomping at the bit to book a flight for next year’s event–Sea World here we come!) This conference tends to be a highlight for me on an annual basis but like all events that you…
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Introducing Sift
I’m delighted to announce that I am formally changing the name of my consulting firm from BaileySorts to SiftUX effective today with the launch of my new website: SiftUX. While I will continue to provide solo consulting, the new name reflects a shift in focus toward more partnership and team-based work efforts that will enable…
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A disturbing trend in UX books?
This morning, Karl (a professor who teaches both HCI and Information Architecture) handed me a semi-recently published textbook (2012) that he said he thought might be able to finally serve as a comprehensive text book that could be assigned to students in the program where he teaches. I looked at the book with a lot…
Read moreNew expert offering from Garrick VanBuren
Garrick VanBuren, a UX consultant, seminal member of the UX Community in Minneapolis and all around SmartGuy has just launched a subscription based newsletter called Design for Leadership. Folks who subscribe before April 1 will receive a $50 discount. Check it out here: Design for Leadership
Read more“Just say no to NO-UI”
Haven’t had time to fully process the ideas in this article but it resonates as Very Important, so am posting it now and will circle back to it… http://www.elasticspace.com/2013/03/no-to-no-ui
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Chrome user experience fail
A couple weeks ago I started using Last Pass in an attempt to improve the security of my passwords. (It’s software where you have one password to login to it and then it automatically logs in to your various sites/apps for you. So far it works better in theory than in practice, but I do…
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Navigation Pattern Libraries
Ever since the advent of the “mega menu” navigation I’ve felt that Information Architecture as a discipline has dropped the ball on defining navigation approaches in a systematic way. I think this may in part have happened around the time that pattern libraries began popping up like mushrooms; perhaps we all thought that any necessary…
Read moreCoding Viral Video
I would imagine that anyone likely to stumble on this post has already seen code.org’s fantastic evangelical video, but I’m capturing it here for posterity. I had several reactions, one of which was the old nagging sensation that I really *should* take a basic programming course…and yet, I don’t know that it’s a good idea…
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Friday Post: What’s Wrong with this Picture?
Comfort food gets all the press, but I also indulge in comfort reading (or listening, in the case of audio books). Which is how I came to be searching for Cold Comfort Farm, a delightful book by Stella Gibson that fills the role of mac-n-cheese for the brain nicely. Sadly, I was thwarted in my…
Read morethe weirdest people in the world
I still can’t entirely wrap my head around this amazing article. You’ve probably seen this illusion: (also called the Muller-Lyer illusion) If you are like me, the line on the left probably looks LONGER to you than the line on the right. (The two lines are actually the same length). If you were like me…
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