14 Feb, 2011
Do you have any User Experience Designers in your organization? If so (or if you’re considering hiring one), this handy guide should help you understand how to deal with the mysterious UXD.
What is User Experience Design?
We should start by identifying what a UXD is and what they are typically asked to do because, let’s face it, it’s kind of an enigma. In most cases, a UXD is tasked with looking holistically at a customer/user’s interaction with a brand, process or system from start to finish (and beyond); understanding the business and the customers’ objectives, and designing an experience that is both pleasurable and valuable to all parties. Easy, right?
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4 Jan, 2011
Nerds love Quora – a user generated content site that focuses on posting questions and answers within a multitude of topics. It’s all the rage right now with the early-adopter social/technophile set (like yours truly). Some are predicting that Quora will be the next big thing in 2011.
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Posted in Social Media, Technology, User Experience | 3 Comments »
12 Oct, 2010
When is the last time you took a moment to ask, “Why?” It’s one word—a seemingly simple question—but the power of analyzing motives can be life-altering.
The world is moving faster than ever. Most of us—mobile phone in one hand, large coffee in the other—are challenged to keep up with an unyielding fire hose of information while we travel almost obliviously from point A to point B. Our lives are saturated with routines that we repeat day in and day out without considering the rationale behind our choices; many of our lives have become so routine that we cease to make decisions at all, i.e. life on autopilot.
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Posted in Life, Uncommon Sense, User Experience | 3 Comments »