Pleasure and Pain

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Facebook Privacy Settings Redesign on Fortune.com

May 28th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Articles, Design

Last week, Fortune.com (CNNMoney.com) published an article and screenshot gallery titled Hey Facebook! Here’s your privacy redesign, and I was fortunate enough to have my work included in it. Reporter JP Mangalindan reached out to me a few weeks ago and asked me to mock up a couple ideas for how Facebook could redesign its [...]

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My 20 Guiding Principles for UX Design on Monster.com’s InsideTech

March 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Articles

Last month I mentioned that UX Magazine would now 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 for IT professionals.” The article has more than 2,600 views [...]

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See For Yourself on Johnny Holland Magazine

March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Articles, User Experience

Yesterday the wonderful Johnny Holland Magazine published my essay, See For Yourself: About the Power of Observing. The article, or more accurately, rant, is all about how imperative it is for user experience designers to actively observe the world around us on a regular basis. Re-reading it now, it feels quite different than most of [...]

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Pleasure and Pain now on UX Magazine

February 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Articles, Pleasure

I am happy to announce that starting today, some of my posts on this here blog will be syndicated to UX Magazine. UX Magazine is an online publication for user experience professionals that was founded in 2006 and was nominated for a Webby in 2007. In their words: Every month we combine original articles with [...]

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Client Matters: Ironclad Contracts: Tougher Than a Pinky Swear

February 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Articles, Consulting, User Experience

UXmatters just published the fourth article in my bimonthly column, Client Matters, where I give UX professionals an honest look at initiating and managing relationships with clients. The latest article is titled, Ironclad Contracts: Tougher Than a Pinky Swear. In it I expound on how to determine the nuts and bolts of your client contract: [...]

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