To start, here is the list of what is new between CS5 and CS6: Content-Aware Patch Faster rendering with Liquify and Puppet Warp Some UI improvements Blur Gallery Improved Crop tool Video creation Migration/Sharing thing Adaptive Wide Angle Background Save Auto-recovery Improved auto-corrections Content Aware Move Skin tone aware masking…
Over the past few years, I have been managing more and more and individually contributing less and less. This is how I scale my value to the company. I train other people to do what I used to do myself so I can get more output more as a department…
Lately, I have been working with Product Marketing. It is a fascinating department within a company. I drew a picture of where they sit in the organization. Product Marketing has the role of translating specific product features into more outbound messages. They create messaging “marchitectures” (It’s a play on words,…
Here is what I imagine was said, “OK, now let’s get your hair combed. Please cross your arms. Now we put the tree picture behind you. Lastly, let’s see a smile. Ok, now keep that smile….wait for it….keep smiling….almost there….oops…one more second.” What is the point of a photo like…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I want an electric car. This is ridiculous. The picture below is me after paying.
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.…
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…
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…
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…
I just installed the latest Windows 8 on my Samsung Series 9 laptop. Much better than last version. I am still not a fan of Metro and I think the UI took a step backwards in many ways, but still an improvement from the previous disaster. The process was pretty smooth,…