The UX field is booming. It seems like the number of user experience practitioners has doubled in the last year — from newbies who’ve just entered the workforce, to mid-career changes, to folks who’ve been doing this all along but finally found out what to call themselves. It’s incredibly reassuring to finally see a long [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Argument'
You’re not a user experience designer if…
April 23rd, 2011 · 82 Comments · Industry, User Experience
Why I detest the term “Lean UX”
February 27th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Design, Startups, User Experience
Any user experience designer worth their salt takes the needs of the company they’re serving into account and adapts their approach accordingly — identifying the appropriate process, methods and tools to get the job done. This has been the case for as long as information architecture and interaction design have been in practice. Rigid methodology [...]
Tags:Argument·Design·Methodology·Pain·Startups·User Experience
Literally Desperate
November 18th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Digressions, Pain
There’s something I have to metaphorically get off my chest. You literally don’t have a clue what “literally” actually means. Literal is defined as: actual; absolute. Literally is defined as: in the explicit meaning of the word; without embellishment or exaggeration; not as an idiom or metaphor. I’m not the first person to plead this [...]
If the product doesn’t work, its “user experience” doesn’t matter
August 18th, 2010 · 8 Comments · User Experience
I recently edited an article for UX Magazine (When You Startup with UX) in which I interviewed four startups on what User Experience means to them. Of all the things that people said, the quote that stood out to me the most was from Mike Singleton, a developer at Foursquare: “…when you only have three [...]
Tags:Argument·Development·Methodology·Realizations·User Experience
Inspiration and Aspiration
July 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Career
The words inspiration and aspiration are often used interchangeably, and I think it’s important that we draw a clearer distinction. Inspiration is defined as, “the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something.” Aspiration is, “a hope or ambition of achieving something.” Stimulation versus ambition. Excitement versus action. And most significantly, external versus [...]
