Category Archives: UX design

Voice Interfaces – So Awesome yet So Awkward
Voice interaction is a great option in some cases, but it doesn’t need to be injected into every corner of life.

Voice Interfaces – So Awesome yet So Awkward
Voice interaction is a great option in some cases, but it doesn’t need to be injected into every corner of life.

Looking for Fearless UX Designers?
These past few months I’ve been teaching the full time UX design program at General Assembly. A ten week intensive boot camp for people changing careers into UX design. People quitting jobs, moving cities/countries, paying $$ – going all in.

Looking for Fearless UX Designers?
These past few months I’ve been teaching the full time UX design program at General Assembly. A ten week intensive boot camp for people changing careers into UX design. People quitting jobs, moving cities/countries, paying $$ – going all in.

Reduce the “fear-of-fucking-up” friction
Products are not bought, they are hired to do jobs for people as Clayton Christensen puts it using milkshakes as his example. Snickers practices what Christensen preaches in their marketing – and they do it in videos much better suited for

Reduce the “fear-of-fucking-up” friction
Products are not bought, they are hired to do jobs for people as Clayton Christensen puts it using milkshakes as his example. Snickers practices what Christensen preaches in their marketing – and they do it in videos much better suited for

Assume Users Will Invest Zero Seconds
I keep running into the discussion of whether there will eventually be a 3D printer in every home. Though no one obviously knows the answer (it may even be the wrong question to be asking), it’s still interesting to think through things like co-creation,

Assume Users Will Invest Zero Seconds
I keep running into the discussion of whether there will eventually be a 3D printer in every home. Though no one obviously knows the answer (it may even be the wrong question to be asking), it’s still interesting to think through things like co-creation,

SXSWi 2012: Information overload, open bars and a mind-controlled skateboard
Exactly the brilliantly interesting shit-show I had been told it would be – a bit more rainy though. Notes from a few sessions survived… Interfaces use 30 year old metaphor’s This was interesting and something I need to look at

SXSWi 2012: Information overload, open bars and a mind-controlled skateboard
Exactly the brilliantly interesting shit-show I had been told it would be – a bit more rainy though. Notes from a few sessions survived… Interfaces use 30 year old metaphor’s This was interesting and something I need to look at
Skimming and scanning
Observation: A user speeds up as they skim and scroll down a page. Observed in user testing on an information rich website with lots of text and headings. Not a web application. Design patterns: Reduce text density towards bottom of page.
Skimming and scanning
Observation: A user speeds up as they skim and scroll down a page. Observed in user testing on an information rich website with lots of text and headings. Not a web application. Design patterns: Reduce text density towards bottom of page.