As most people who read a blog like this knows, the new Star Wars film opened to a colossal amount of tickets sold – $250 million in the US, and $500 million dollars worldwide, and that was just during the…
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My Interview with the UX Practitioner Series
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Rest in peace, Beth: Saying goodbye to an old friend
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Inert Heroes: Why some of cinema’s best films have passive protagonists
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The eight most common mistakes made on UX projects
I’ve worked in the UX discipline for over a decade now, and have been on a number of projects both large and small. One of the skills I’ve picked up in that time is pattern recognition, which helps me create…
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The day I saved Timothy Leary’s life
I realized a few days ago I had a couple of pretty good stories that I had never written up. One, involving Richard Simmons, I will not recount until he passes away (dead people can’t sue). The other, involving the…
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Seven things your boss needs to know about UX
As someone who has been in the user experience domain for a LOOONG time, I have had lots of conversations with many different executives. And, most of the time, these execs knew how to spell “UX”, but they didn’t know much…
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Star Trek is broken – here are ideas on how to fix it
Crosspost from http://www.trekmovie.com (and please check out the… interesting comments to this post there.) At last month’s official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, I had the privilege to speak about “Treknology”. The experience was great – I was thrilled at the…
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The human adventure is just beginning: How the optimistic future of Star Trek is more likely than we may think
“We are locally optimistic, and globally pessimistic.” That statement is a key point made in the book Abundance: the Future is Better than you think by Pete Diamandis and Steven Kotler. The quote is from one of the many people…
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UX’s Greatest Mysteries, revealed!
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Tips on how NOT to do a UX design project
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Hyphenate (and celebrate) yourself, but be sure to focus on your “core”
I had a great chat with several colleagues at a social event recently, and when I meet new people they usually ask “what do you do?” A very simple question to answer, but what and how people respond is quite…
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Lessons in UX: How a high-level design makes everything better
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Endings
I’m going home. They say home is where your heart is, and that’s exactly right. My heart is with my family, and they aren’t here. They’re in my house in Dacula, Georgia, just northeast of Atlanta. Me? Well, for the…
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Rest in peace, Marilyn Daniel-Ware
Ignorance is definitely bliss. After a lovely, leisurely lunch with some friends today, I grew nostalgic. I thought back to my college days, to when I was doing college radio. I thought about the friends I made when I worked…
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Focus on the outcome, not the tool
I’m fighting with Adobe. Not literally, obviously – I’m not having physical altercations with a multinational corporation. I’m fighting with thier apps, specifically InDesign. And InDesign is winning. The thing is, it shouldn’t be. I’ve used page layout programs for…