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 'Gadgetry'
Location Agnostic, Context Specific
February 7th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Accessibility, Gadgetry, Technology
Tags:Accessibility·Gadgetry·Learning·Technology·User Experience
From the archives: I love new toys!
January 30th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Gadgetry, Pleasure
Pleasure and Pain is not my first blog. It’s probably my fifth, though it’s certainly the only one that ever took off. From September 2004 – August 2006, I had a blog called self-preservation (self-hosted WordPress, natch). At the time, I was pretty damn proud of myself for that witty title — and I kinda [...]
Photo of the day: Visualizing Genres
June 17th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Gadgetry, Pain, Photography, User Experience
Hotel alarm clocks are usually a big pain in the butt. Hampton Inn aims to fix all that — and takes simplicity to inconceivable levels. They go so far past easy to use and intuitive that they come back around to obscure and pointless. They visualize musical genres. Columns for Classical Stream for Soft Rock [...]
Photo of the day: Penn Station, Charging Station
February 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Customer Experience, Photography
I’ve found myself at Penn Station quite a lot lately. You see, I’m working on the project of a lifetime with Happy Cog Philadelphia, so I visit by train from time-to-time. A few weeks ago I observed some unusual behavior: I’ve passed by this column dozens of times when I walk into the Amtrak area [...]
Photo of the day: Kickin’ It Old School
February 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Photography
I’ve been riding Amtrak a lot lately, and I’ve seen a lot of businesspeople with their laptops and USB modems and BlackBerrys and bluetooth headsets. That has become the norm, even among the baby boomers. So much so that I had to do a double-take when I saw this sweet guy kickin’ it old school: [...]
