I’ve crafted a semester-long course based on my book “UX 101: A Primer on User Experience Design.” This book serves as the backbone of our syllabus, offering both beginners and seasoned designers a structured journey into the world of UX.…
Have you ever paused to think about why you design or create? Why some of us are drawn to pen and paper, to the hum of a computer, to the intricacies of 3D models, or the rhythm of a well-crafted…
After lots of hard work and dedication, my ebook, “Mastering Productivity: A Comprehensive Guide to Organized Success,” is finally available. This project has been a labor of love, and I truly believe it can help many of you navigate the…
So the Writers Guild of America is on strike, and one of the main sticking points is the use of AI for writing. If a strike took place a year ago, this would not be a factor or an issue,…
Like many fans, I was taken aback and utterly gutted at the news that Gilbert Gottfried had passed away at the age of 67. His podcast is… WAS, a constant source of entertainment and joy in my life. I suspected…
I knew the day would come. After all, no one lives forever. Not even James Bond. Of course, Sean Connery was more than Bond, and was good in almost everything he did… Even Zardoz. But when the news of Connery’s…
As a user experience professional, I continuously focus on design trends and de-facto standards, so I can work with development and product teams to craft the most effective end-to-end experience I can. And a core attribute of such an experience…
Anyone who knows me know one thing: I LOVE the work of Harry Nilsson. LOVE it. I trace that love all the way back to a very odd start. It was Popeye. Yup, the Robert Altman Popeye movie. 10-year-old me…
Planning and executing effective user research is sometimes a challenge. The value of research is obviously to UX people, but less so to those decisionmakers and stakeholders – who usually control the budget for such things. I’ve had to build…
NOTE: This piece was originally written for TrekMovie.com. After they received it they decided to not post it, for reasons I will not detail (reasons which I 100% disagree with). Here is what I wrote, and I again thank Ray…
I was young and stupid in the early 90s. I had a lot of really cool collectibles and comics, but I also did not have much money. So I did what I’ve had to do a couple of times since…
I’ve worked on many projects and several different software development teams in the past, and these teams have had great success in applying Agile best practices in their work. Unfortunately, the integration of UX processes into the Agile methodology is…
This is a very self-indulgent post. I can see some people reading the title of this and reacting thusly: “Fix Galaxy’s Edge? It just opened, it doesn’t need fixing! Why, the new area of Disneyland is so popular, they are…
I’ve seen a frustrating trend lately regarding how many outside of user experience teams think of the discipline. Their opinion may be simply ignorance, or may have been influenced by how UX folks on our side “sold” themselves (or the…
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…
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…