User Experience.UX Design

Of Bugs and Humbugs

We all have blind spots. Literally and figuratively. Blind spots are areas of reality we are not normally aware of. We have blind spots of vision (physiological), blind spots of perception (experiential and cultural), even of blind spots of themselves (psychological). Not to worry, though; it's only natural. It's because, dear reader, mother nature loves you... she doesn't want you to see everything at at once. Imagine how overwhelming it would be to take in all of the information surrounding you, ... Read Full Stumbling on Usability Article »

The origins and meaning of "User Experience / UX Design" may seem a bit murky at first glance, to many not already familiar with it. One early use of it, without "user" prefixed, appeared in the nascent "Advance for Design" meetings organized by Clement Mok et al, under AIGA sponsorship, between 1998 and 2000. Mention is made, too, in the first post to uxmatters.com, of Don Norman using the term at Apple as early as 1993.

Though implying a Gestalt approach to interactive media d... Read Full What is UX? Article »

WordCamp 2007 proved both extremely valuable to me, personally and professionally, and to my wallet. At $25., you will not get more for less any place. Lunch included! Amazing. Yes, there is hope for human kind. Such a ethos of digital "socialismo" and open source information cross-contribution reminds me of them good ol' days when the web (then called "the net") seemed to me a daily digital Christmas. I fear only that we'd take such things for granted, which, like taking democr... Read Full WordCamp Day 2 Article »

It seems appropriate for the current use of this website, which is powered by WordPress, to be launched on the weekend of WordCamp 2007, in San Francisco, which I am now attending. Among a number of familiar faces is Benjamin Harper whom I'd first met at Startup Camp, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (where I also happen to live). It is always a pleasure s... Read Full UXDesign.com Launches Article »