Pleasure and Pain

Improving the human experience one day at a time

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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A Brief Recap on Year 4

February 2nd, 2012 · No Comments · Blogging

2012 started off with a bang and my mind has been moving at a million miles a minute ever since. I managed to miss a few important milestones and never got around to taking the time to reflect on the year here. I suppose I decided that dwelling on the past (even if it yielded [...]

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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 [...]

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What I Did on My Summer Vacation

September 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Career, Pleasure

You might have realized I haven’t been here in a while. That’s because I’ve been everywhere else. I spent my summer doing deeply meaningful client projects and traveling the world sharing my passion for making people’s lives better. I met a ton of interesting new people along the way — people who inspired me to [...]

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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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