Pleasure and Pain

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Entries Tagged as 'Methodology'

Whit Hour – Week 3

August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 20 or so folks who showed up for the third week of Whit Hour — my weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Sorry for the last-minute day change. I was stuck in [...]

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Whit Hour – Week 2

August 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Whit Hour

Thank you so much to the 20 or so folks who showed up for the second week of Whit Hour — my new weekly one-hour video chat to answer any and all of your questions about user experience, consulting, and whatever else you throw at me. Join me next week on Sunday, August 16, 9-10pm [...]

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User Centered Design is now closed

February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Humor, User Experience

Last year at IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool declared that it was time for us to retire the dogma of user-centered design, citing that the most effective design teams don’t follow a specific methodology, but instead have a whole toolbox of techniques and tricks to use when the time is right. Flip through his slides [...]

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Maimonides’ Eight Levels of Charity Applied to Building Your Personal Brand

February 18th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Career

I’ve been thinking a lot about acts of giving lately. It’s been an incredible year for me and so many people have given me so much. It seems impossible to give back. In Judaism, it’s common to follow Maimonides’ Eight Levels of Tzedakah (the Hebrew word for charity or justice). The aim is to give [...]

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Redesigning the boxee experience

December 18th, 2008 · 20 Comments · Consulting, User Experience

It’s been a few weeks in the making, but today boxee announced that they’ve hired me to help redesign their user experience from the ground up. If you haven’t heard of boxee, where have you been hiding? They’ve been in the top 10 trending topics on Twitter for the past month. They’re blowing up the [...]

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