From websites to software, new types of interactions require designing with a learning curve in mind. How do you appeal to both novice and expert users at once? Here’s an article I wrote addressing that question. When designing anything that targets multiple types of users — a robust web site, an application, a video game, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'user experience'
Choosing what features to design? Hit the sweet spot.
February 19th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: game design · guitar hero · user experience
Building a UX Team of One
August 20th, 2008 No Comments
It’s been a long blogging hiatus. I’ve been taking time to work on my job search and figure out what I’m most passionate about), But now I’ve started working on a big blog post titled “Developing Experience Design Within The Traditional Agency.” My hypothesis is that as consumer distrust and distaste of advertising increases, they’ll [...]
Tags: cross channel · design ideas · design principals · design strategy · experience design · user experience
Myspace, A Place For CAPTCHAs
August 14th, 2008 No Comments
Using MySpace these days, you come across more CAPTCHAs than you do content. It’s frustrating “solving” these all the time, and sometimes downright ridiculous. In the words of my former boss, Harley Manning, “You can’t annoy someone into liking your brand.”
Tags: brand strategy · captcha · myspace · social media · usability · user experience
Some Thoughts on MySpace’s Redesign
June 18th, 2008 No Comments
MySpace is rolling out their new re-design, as of yesterday, which the brilliant folks at Adaptive Path played a large part in. I’m always impressed by their work, but I was surprised by the screenshots of the redesign I saw on Valleywag who notes: “When Fox Interactive began interviewing Web designers for the job last [...]
Tags: danah boyd · facebook · fox interactive · friendster · myspace · myspace redesign · scobelizer · social media · undesigned · urban youth · usability · user experience
Towards the Customer-Centric Organization
May 5th, 2008 2 Comments
There’s exciting thought brewing right now about how user-centered design and customer experience thinking can impacting, not product or website design, but the very building blocks of business, like org charts, process flows, even manufacturing. As companies realize they need open up their marketing mentality, so are a handful applying that thought to other areas [...]
Tags: adam richardson · american apparel · business structures · customer experience · design · org charts · organization structure · personas · rfid chip · silos · user centered design · user experience
