There is a simple tip I give people about how to be good at UX. Turn your sensitivity to annoyances all the way up to 11. I asked a candidate to look at a table we eating at in a restaurant. I asked him, “What do you see that could be improved?” He said, “Nothing.”…
This is clearly a religious topic, so please open your mind while reading…yeah, good luck with that. My whole team (5 designers) use Macs. They all have MacBook Pro laptops. The tools we use are: MS PowerPoint for storyboarding designs MS Outlook for corporate email Adobe CS5 Chrome/Firefox Jira (Bug Tracker) Wiki Google Docs MS Excel (rarely)…
When I talk about the UX of something, really I am thinking about the psychology of it. I think about how it feels and how it makes people act. Of course, sometimes I stretch the definition a bit and I apologize for that. This week is a big change week for me. Lot’s of things…
I was never one to think about “fashion” or “dressing nice” or “image”. (All air-quotes) Last year, a co-worker told me that he has paid a personal consultant to help pick out a wardrobe. The truth is: he looked good! I looked at myself in the mirror and it struck me: My clothes don’t fit…