Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

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Entries from June 30th, 2011

Catching Up on Pleasure and Pain

June 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Blogging

Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you probably arrived via a link to a single post and may not have a full picture of the things I write about. If you’re interested in learning more about me, here’s a selection of posts that can speak to my broader vision about user experience and my [...]

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Follow-up to “You’re not a user experience designer if…”

June 7th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Blogging, Community, User Experience

The blog post I wrote about six weeks ago titled, You’re not a user experience designer if…, got way more attention than I ever could have predicted — in fact, I think it got the most traffic of any post I’ve ever written. Sure, it’s an antagonistic title and that always gets people riled up. [...]

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Silver Winner of the Inaugural User Experience Awards

June 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Awards, User Experience

I am incredibly honored to have won an award at last night’s User Experience Awards at the Parsons School of Design. I was awarded one of four Silver prizes for my work on the Boxee beta application, and was given the distinction of Best User Centered Design Process. Wow! Thank you so much to the [...]

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