Category Archives: ux

General posts relating to user experience design.

Make sure your Linkedin profile is public

Posted on October 12, 2011 by gary

I noticed on linked in that many of my friends “public” profiles (the one people see who are not connected to you) show practically nothing. This is not good if you want to make connections, especially if you are looking … Continue reading →

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Launch Day

Posted on July 14, 2011 by gary

Today my employer Dell/KACE is announcing their M300 Asset Management Appliance. Since I only have worked at Dell/KACE for a few months, I had nothing whatsoever to do with this product. However, a lot of my co-workers have been working … Continue reading →

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Books UX designers should read

Posted on April 9, 2011 by gary

Here’s a list of 5 books UX designers should read, that are not about User Experience per se, but about behavioral economics, cognitive psychology or game theory. The list is from the Rajat Paharia video I shared yesterday. I have read Freakonomics and … Continue reading →

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Game Dynamics in User Experience

Posted on April 8, 2011 by gary

In a recent post, I talked about “Gamifying Usability” citing an NPR story and Amazon’s user badges. Rajat Paharia of Bunchball has done a nice job in this 60 minute video distilling some useful practices for bring in game behavior … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn Humor

Posted on April 1, 2011 by gary

I was on LinkedIn today and this is what they suggested as “People You May Know”: Perhaps they are testing something (April fools). In case you didn’t get the obscure physics reference, all three names are… interesting.

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Gamifying Usability

Posted on March 28, 2011 by gary

NPR has a short piece on ‘Gamifying’ The System To Create Better Behavior. This is a great example of the kind of thinking that can help go beyond usability to improve user experience. Productivity and time-on-task are important but these … Continue reading →

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My WordPress plug-in

Posted on January 17, 2011 by gary

I just released my first public WordPress plug-in Affiliate easel for Amazon. The purpose of the plug-in is to allow WordPress bloggers to easily insert images, data and prices from Amazon.com and to use affiliate codes to make some money.It … Continue reading →

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Essential UX videos, including multi-touch

Posted on January 15, 2011 by gary

Smashing has a great post about 25 user experience videos that are worth your time. Its going to take some time to watch them all but here’s an prototype (or simulation) of an interesting multi-touch concept:

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A tech company that is design, not engineering driven

Posted on October 19, 2010 by gary

Wired has a huge transcript of a long interview with John Sculley (former CEO Apple) and his take on Steve Jobs. http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full-interview-transcript/63295 At the bottom of the interview are links to several smaller excerpts from the interview if you don’t … Continue reading →

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Innovations in voice interface for GPS

Posted on September 13, 2010 by gary

It’s an interesting thing to me to use voice as part of a user interface. I once heard Phillip Hunter (now of tellme networks http://www.tellme.com/) speak about designing telephone voice-prompt menus and it seemed like some surprisingly interesting challenges. Navteq … Continue reading →

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