I’ve already written about how, when I approach a design problem, I start with the assumption that “I am probably wrong.” Now I’d like to write about a way you can “test” and refine your designs without taking them to…
Year: 2018
UX Articles
The World is Changing: UX in the Enterprise
I love movie trailers… Especially older trailers, because A) they didn’t reveal the entire movie’s plot in 2 minutes time and B) they had the BEST voice-overs. Orson Welles, for example, did the voice over for the first trailer for…
Family
Me, Alphabetically
Available/Single? Nope. Best Friend? She Who Must Be Obeyed (see previous answer) Cake or Pie? Pie. Key Lime, or Cherry. Drink of choice? Coffee in the morning, water during the day, some fine wine or scotch in the evening. Essential…
UX Articles
Lessons in UX: The Cambrian Explosion of UI Design (and where we are now)
“How do you use this?” Whenever any new piece of technology is released, this is the core (usually unspoken) question that consumers of said technology have. How does it work? What does it do? The better designed devices and applications…
Movies
RIP Burt Reynolds
This is one of the tough ones. Celebrity deaths happen all the time – and so many celebrities of my youth have already passed. And yet… sometimes, sometimes the passing of one particular celebrity means more. A lot more. For…
Featured Articles, UX Articles
How to Avoid “UX Theatre”
I’ve been involved in a lot of projects in my many MANY years as a UX professional – some good, some bad, most… interesting. One thing I’m beginning to see as a trend is the rise of what I consider…
Family, Technology, UX Articles
The #UX of Vacations: How technology can provide a better experience
It’s summertime, and to many of us that means one thing: vacation. I’m one such person, with two trips scheduled, with a third (potentially) in the offering. Travel of any sort often comes many anxieties… Delayed flights, lost reservations, and…
Featured Articles, Technology, UX Articles
Little Moments: How technology connects us more, not less
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, published a blog posting a while back that claimed that technology was making us more self-involved and narcissistic, that the end result of this self-centeredness would be a culture of sociopaths who are more…
Geek
Twitter thread on one of the best toy lines ever, Micronauts
https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940607610092445696 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940608414799089664 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940608500551553024 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940609299113480192 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940609607814320128 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940610070773223430 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940610834589417472 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940611182196674560 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940611804664909825 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940612125755625472 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940612629365755904 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940613315205718021 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940613638724947968 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940614202246549506 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940614526449352704 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940614786596986881 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940615510009483269 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940616659630424064 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940619114120433664 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940619351249571847 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940619788711317504 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940620307534090240 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940620673411682304 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/940620833910861825
Geek
A look back at the “lost” G.I.Joe, Super Joe
From my Twitter feed @josephdickerson last month… https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980972682551361538 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980973155530563585 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980973625837801473 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980974108740431872 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980974552833560576 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980974875346198528 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980975392088641536 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980975746855395328 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980976258094895104 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980976824451764224 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980977599072620545 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980978010277937152 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980978903014658048 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980979311904804870 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980979796913065984 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/980980116904914944
UX Articles
On loyalty programs, Gamification and good #UX
As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, I travel for business. A LOT. To date in 2018 I’ve traveled internationally twice, and to various cities in the US over a dozen times. As a frequent business traveler, I have…
Geek, Trek
A look back at the Star Trek role playing game
A twitter thread on the great game system from FASA… https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975386122460237824 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975386558491656192 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975387305992212483 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975388199752257537 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975388399082397697 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975388812129062912 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975389244582703105 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975389908633374721 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975390212925874178 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975390671946338305 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975391119235305473 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975391626154659842 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975391932393410562 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975392394110799872 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975393431013986304 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975394175960174592 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975394551010652165 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975394959611310081
TV
A few thoughts on The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling
This past week I watched the incredibly moving documentary The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling. I was a huge fan of Shandling and the film by Judd Apatow prompted the following Twitter thread… https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/979170171171540993 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/979170460293267456 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/979170714854023172 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/979171353382318080 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/979172242360799237 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/979172695899299840 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/979173078424006657…
Geek
Whose Star Trek is it, anyway?
I recently completed reading the great two-volume set The 50 Year Mission, An Oral History of Star Trek, and it got me thinking. The first volume, covering the original series and the subsequent films with the original cast, had some…
Trek
My thread on Star Trek coloring books
I’ve recently started jumping into Twitter threads with both feet in order to highlight some of the high geekery I love. Here is my recent thread on Star Trek coloring books… https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970139852355395584 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970140400852918273 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970140667912605697 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970140936784269312 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970141189860192256 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970141480538050560 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970141871363194885 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970142933528793089 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970143776810381314…
Geek, Movies
Happy 50th Anniversary to the Planet of the Apes!
I have to formally acknowledge the 50th Anniversary of the original and classic film, that wonderful movie that introduced us to a world where APES can talk and humans are mute: Planet of the Apes. I’m an apeophile from WAY…