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 'Learning'
Location Agnostic, Context Specific
February 7th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Accessibility, Gadgetry, Technology
Tags:Accessibility·Gadgetry·Learning·Technology·User Experience
I’m Not Cool
October 27th, 2011 · 49 Comments · Community, Digressions
Two weeks ago, I bit the bullet and moved to Brooklyn. To my Manhattanite parents, this is a betrayal of epic proportions. To my childhood friends, I’ve lost my mind. But to the web community, what the hell took me so long? I’ll tell you. It’s quite simple really. I’m not cool. The same week [...]
Tags:Community·Digressions·Learning
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. [...]
My SXSW Core Conversation: “Breaking Taboos: Pros Get Real About Money Matters”
March 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Career, Conferences, Consulting, Startups
Money is a topic that most people dance around because they don’t want to be rude, or tacky, or misunderstood. But if we avoid talking about it, we avoid learning a very essential part of our business and our industry. In order to thrive as a professional community, we need to have a strong handle [...]
Tags:Career·Conferences·Consulting·Learning·Speaking·Startups
Interaction-design.org’s Encyclopedia is live!
February 1st, 2011 · 3 Comments · Education, Pleasure, User Experience
Interaction-design.org is a Denmark-based foundation that explores research on all human-centered aspects of technology. In an effort to create world-class educational materials for free, they have just launched an open-access, peer-reviewed encyclopedia. The first seven chapters were released today, with many more to be published in the coming months. I was invited by editor-in-chief Mads [...]
