I am incredibly honored to have won an award at last night’s User Experience Awards at the Parsons School of Design. I was awarded one of four Silver prizes for my work on the Boxee beta application, and was given the distinction of Best User Centered Design Process. Wow! Thank you so much to the [...]
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Silver Winner of the Inaugural User Experience Awards
June 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Awards, User Experience
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Design Principles: The Philosophy of UX
May 4th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Conferences, Design, User Experience
On Monday, I had the honor and privilege of presenting a new talk at An Event Apart Boston 2011, titled Design Principles: The Philosophy of UX. This is my third year speaking at AEA and it never gets less exhilarating — and terrifying! Design Principles: The Philosophy of UX View more presentations from Whitney Hess. [...]
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I am a stencil
March 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Pleasure, User Experience
This happened five months ago, and I was so stunned by the honor that I think I pushed it somewhere deep into my subconscious until now. In Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville and Jeffrey Callender, there are these cute people icons that accompany various illustrations throughout the book. There was so much [...]
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Designing for Startups in Smashing Magazine
February 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Articles, Design, User Experience
A big thanks goes out to Andrew Maier whose article “Designing for Startups: How to Deliver the Message Across” in Smashing Magazine included some thoughts from a blog post I wrote a few months ago titled “A Plan of Action.” In it he features my three approaches to design: Reactive, Preactive, and Proactive — the [...]
Awesome Email of the Day: Increasingly dissatisfied by how little influence I feel I have
November 29th, 2010 · No Comments · E-mails, Pleasure
I am a very fortunate person. I feel it every day. Some days I get the most incredible emails that make me realize it even more deeply. A few months ago I got this one, and I was given the permission to reprint it. This is why I do what I do. I know so [...]
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