At the end of last year, I contributed to a year-end roundup piece in A List Apart called “What I Learned About the Web in 2011.” I shared the most impactful lesson I had learned from various user research projects last year. CONTEXT IS KING The most important thing that 2011 taught me about web [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Accessibility'
Location Agnostic, Context Specific
February 7th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Accessibility, Gadgetry, Technology
Tags:Accessibility·Gadgetry·Learning·Technology·User Experience
Pleasure and Pain has gone mobile
November 4th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Accessibility, Blogging, Design
It’s quite overdue, but this blog is now optimized to be viewed in a mobile browser. Many thanks to Ben Seven for giving me the kick in the ass I needed to get it done: Commented on You’re not a user experience designer if… by Ben Seven: Are you allowed to call yourself a User [...]
Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts
December 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Design, User Experience
I’m a Tweetie fanatic — even if they haven’t updated Tweetie for Mac in ages and probably never will again — so I don’t use the #newtwitter web app very much at all. The other day I just happened to look at the footer and notice a link labeled Shortcuts. It opens the following layer: [...]
Tags:Accessibility·Productivity·Usability Evaluations·User Experience·Webapps
Photo of the day: The corner of W 13th St and W 4th St
June 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Accessibility, Pain, Photography
For anyone who’s ever been to Manhattan, or perhaps even heard of Manhattan, chances are you know that our roads are based on a grid — Streets are east-west and are numbered, Avenues are north-south and are numbered or named. 62nd Street and 2nd Avenue 106th Street and Park Avenue 1st Street and 1st Avenue [...]
Tags:Accessibility·New York·Pain·Photography·Usability Evaluations
Photo of the day: A man in need of an iPad
June 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Accessibility, Pain, Photography, User Experience
…or a Kindle, or a nook. I recently spotted this man at a Starbucks in SoHo. He was clearly settled in for the day, his keyboard propped up against the wall behind him, feet kicked up, book in hand…and in the other hand, a magnifying glass to help him read the damn thing. That very [...]
Tags:Accessibility·Design·Mobile·Pain·Photography·User Experience
