I installed my third beta of Windows 8 on my Samsung Series 9. I am finally starting to see what Microsoft is thinking. Up until this point, I didn’t get it. It’s like Windows 7 but worse. What I realized in this last version is that it is highly intended…
Some people get lucky, but how the heck can you work at that? Let’s focus on the ways to get promoted that you can control. The following is based on my personal experience of how people get promoted to managerial roles. Following this advice doesn’t guarantee anything, but it will…
Nothing is more valuable than peace of mind. You may have everything in the world you need and want, but if you don’t have peace of mind, you will not be happy. A friend of mine recently told me about a house she is considering buying. It truly is a…
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…