Month: March 2012

What kind of crazy designer thought this was a good idea?  (Screen of an ATM machine I was using) Press Enter to Exit.  It’s like Windows 95-Windows Vista: Press Start to Shut Down. I don’t ask alot.  Just make sense.  They had buttons for Yes and No on the pad.  Why not say, “Exit Now?…

Perfect work.  100%.  Every detail polished. You look at Apple products and this sort of precision and attention to detail is obvious.  Steve Jobs was a master at the details and he created a company that will carry on (hopefully) his legacy.  For Steve, there was very little gap between a perfect product and one…

Pyschology and UX are very closely related.  How do people act?  What do they think?  How do they decide?  To be a great UX Designer, you must understand human psychology as a core aspect of your craft.  One interesting psychological phenomenon is called Fundamental Attribution Error.  Take the following two examples: If you are late…

I bought two iPod Shuffle mp3 players for my kids.  While in the store, I looked at the program GarageBand.  It was pretty slick.  In addition to learning tutorials on piano and guitar, it had real artist lessons on their songs.  Sting taught you guitar for Roxanne, Alex Lifeson taught guitar on Spirit of the…