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
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“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…
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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I saw the picture with the shoes earlier in the week and initially had a feeling that this photo might be somehow relevant to UX design. However, as I’ve thought about it, the line of shoes is really just a low-tech version of the “take a number” machines encountered at delis and shops. And yet…
Read moreIf I knew then what I know now…
I met with a new student in the IAKM program last night to talk about how she can make the most of the next two years and give herself the best foundation for her newly chosen field. It gave me a fun opportunity to come up with a list of “If I knew then what…
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I guess this is the blogging equivalent of an OH (overheard) tag on Twitter, but I’m compelled to capture this. This is a lesson I’ve heard in digital experience research, but I’ve found it useful in all aspects of life: “Instead of assuming that people are dumb, ignorant, and making mistakes, assume they are smart,…
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I am still in the extreme novice phase with WordPress, so I haven’t made an in-depth study of this but as you can imagine the “uncategorized” label just hanging out gives me the hives. And also reminds me of yet another book I need to read (so far this blog would be better titled: books…
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