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By: Pleasure and Pain » My 20 Guiding Principles for UX Design on Monster.com’s InsideTech

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:54:32 +0000

[...] be syndicating some of the content from Pleasure and Pain. A couple weeks ago they republished my Guiding Principles for UX Designers post, which then in turn got picked up by Monster.com’s InsideTech, a “meeting place [...]

By: IA Journal » Blog Archive » User Experience & Information Architecture Guidelines

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:18:08 +0000

[...] been inspired by Whitney Hess and her Guiding principles for User Experience. These concisely written principles resonated and definitely struck a chord with [...]

By: So you wanna be a user experience designer – UX article by Whitney Hess « Web Page Authority Blog

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:10 +0000

[...] Pleasure and Pain » So you wanna be a user experience designer — Step 2: Guiding Principles I have collected a set of guiding principles for user experience designers, to encourage behaviors that I believe are necessary to being a successful practitioner, as well as a set of guiding principles for experience design — which I think anyone who touches a product used by humans should strive to follow. [...]

By: Mark Richman

Mark Richman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:23:56 +0000

A corollary to your Guiding Principle #1 is – If the client can't articulate the problem, you're of no use to them. How are your list of 5 and 20 different concerns?

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Weekly links | USiT — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:11:28 +0000

[...] Hess shares her five guiding principles for working in [...]

By: Nathanael Boehm

Nathanael Boehm — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:52:29 +0000

Great article – this might be blasphemous but I'm going to say this is probably up there along with the likes of Tognazzini's First Principles of Interaction Design.

By: Marianna Samara

Marianna Samara — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:41:11 +0000

Great article Whitney, as always.
Thanks for sharing your experience and for all the interesting links at the end!
I find #5. Have empathy really challenging as many times you can’t get the answers you need in order to understand the interface you have to design.

I strongly agree with #13 Make actions reversible though is one of the most neglected.

What I would add on the list is to try to design long lasting interfaces rather than just try to achieve the current requirements where & if that’s possible.

By: FlairBuilder

FlairBuilder — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:06:27 +0000

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By: ECCO blog » Blog Archive » Being Ecumenical: Dell Hymes

ECCO blog » Blog Archive » Being Ecumenical: Dell Hymes — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:27:24 +0000

[...] a problem is to look at where it happens. To go where the problem is. Have Empathy, as @whitneyhess said here. And using an ecumenical approach, use whatever tools you [...]