Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

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Pleasure and Pain turns 3

January 10th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Blogging

Three years ago, I was feeling stagnant and purposeless. I wasn’t happy with the direction of my career and I didn’t know what to do about it. Without a clue what it was, I joined Twitter, and three days later I started this blog. January 10, 2008. This is a tough day for me to [...]

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Pleasure and Pain’s Most Popular Posts of 2010

December 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Blogging

I hate end-of-year roundups. But they’re contagious, so I just can’t help myself. Here are the most tweeted, most commented posts I wrote this year. I hope you like them, too. The UX Design Process for the Boxee Beta January 27, 2010 175 tweets, 23 comments More than a year ago I very proudly announced [...]

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My Top 10 User Experience Blogs to Watch in 2010 on Blogs.com

February 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Pleasure, User Experience

Last April I had the honor of contributing a guest list on the 10 Best UX (User Experience) Design blogs [the list, my blog post] for Six Apart’s Blogs.com. I still regularly read almost all of the blogs I listed, but recently realized that there are many new, revamped or lesser known UX blogs that [...]

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Best of the Last Two Years

January 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blogging

I’ve published 447 blog posts over the past two years, but there are a few that really stick out in my mind. Some took a lot of research and analysis, some were important announcements, and others captured my wild emotions at pivotal moments in my personal and professional life. Below you’ll find a list of [...]

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Pleasure and Pain turns 2

January 11th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Blogging

I started this blog two years ago on January 10, 2008 with a post titled, Genesis. I didn’t know at the time just how fitting a word it was. It truly marked the beginning of my re-creation. Since then I’ve published 447 posts (including this one), received 1,491 comments, and had 159,031 unique visitors. The [...]

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