Apple always gets flack for not conducting user research (even though that’s a myth — it’s market research they don’t conduct). Apparently Facebook doesn’t feel the same way about keeping their research under wraps. I recently happened upon an interesting page on Facebook where they allow people to apply to participate in user research studies, [...]
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Facebook recruits for user research…on Facebook
December 22nd, 2010 · 7 Comments · Research
Tags:Facebook·User Research
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 [...]
UPDATE: Facebook at fault for unauthorized link with Twitter account
July 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Pain, Twitter, User Experience
Last night there was a minor fiasco when hundreds of thousands of people suddenly found that their tweets were being published to their Facebook status without their explicit authorization. The only way to fix the problem was to remove or block the Twitter application from within Facebook.
Twitter updating Facebook status without permission
July 29th, 2009 · 15 Comments · Pain, Twitter, User Experience
Update: For the latest information, please read UPDATE: Facebook at fault for unauthorized link with Twitter account. [If Facebook suddenly started publishing your tweets, go into Facebook and REMOVE or BLOCK the Twitter application. That's currently the only fix.] Just an hour ago, I got a notification that someone had commented on my Facebook status [...]
Interviewed for “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster”
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Articles, User Experience
Big thanks to Caroline McCarthy for interviewing me for her latest CNET article, “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster” featured in her column The Social. Caroline asked me what I thought of the new Facebook homepage redesign, as well as Google’s apparent obsession with data (above good design, as exposed by designer Douglas Bowman [...]
