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UxD- more or less
I don’t really know if this falls under product design or user experience design. Today I stopped at my local AM/PM to get gas — $3.17 a gallon for Premium. Not bad. Not great, but not bad. As I...
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User Experience Design — What is it?
This question seems to come up often. Not just from people who ask me what it is when I tell them what I currently do for a living- “You’re a what?” or “What kind of designer?” or more often just a...
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Why Filmmakers Make Great UX Designers – An Opinion
I remember sitting in the cube of a manager at HP, as I was hired to originally make Flash prototypes of some new printer apps. As soon as I was hired (on contract), they asked me to do interaction...
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UX Design- I Hate Web Forms (and forms in general)
Hello, it’s 2012, and I’m still filling out forms on the web, which is pretty much the same way it’s been since the web was invented, or at least started to catch on back in 1996-ish. Why are filling...
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Design – Taking the Complicated and Making it Simple
I love to find ways to make something simple out of something that can be so complicated when it comes to designing an app or product. I just have this innate feeling that no matter how complicated...
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Random Thought- Is UX Design a Novelty? (hint: the answer is no)
For the past six weeks or so, I’ve been working as a contract UX Designer for a company in America’s Finest City (that’s San Diego to those who don’t live or work here…). When I was hired on, I was the...
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Random Thought- Responsive Web Design (an Analogy)
I thought I’d get this down somewhere, recorded in history before someone else claims they came up with it. “What is it?” you ask. Once in a while, somehow I come up with clever thoughts and analogies...
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Random Thought (more or less) – Wake Up San Diego, UX is here
I read an interesting article posted this morning through the UX Professionals LinkedIn group, in regards to why UX salaries will continue to rise – the article is here. It goes on to say that UX...
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Random Thought – How does a UX designer become one?
I thought this round I’d post about an interesting conversation I had the other day with a fellow UX designer. I had invited him as well as a UI designer and his family over for dinner at our house- I...
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Random Thought – What Makes a Happy Experience?
Yesterday — a Wednesday after Spring Break was supposed to be over, my 19 year old son and I made a 2 hour pilgrimage to the Disneyland Resort, or as we native Southern Californian’s call it,...
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