Pro-tips on tech gear from a former Microsoftie: Unless you are a hardcore gamer or doing incredibly detailed 3D modeling with your computer, DON’T BUY NEW. Around five years ago I decided to jump off the upgrade wheel, especially when…
I’m always looking forward. I do this because the past is prologue. You can’t change it. Decisions made are done – Learn from mistakes, and the days to come provide ample opportunities to do things different. And better. Except… I’m…
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…
Recently Gartner revealed their predictions regarding the top 10 technology trends for 2020. I welcome the opportunity such predictions give me to think around how UX practitioners will have to adapt to such change, and what new types of project…
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…
As a technologist and UX Lead for one of the world’s biggest software companies, I spend a lot of time reading about the latest trends in innovation and tech. How do I do it? I have a short list of…
The primary answer is simple: the companies who make these products have different divisions, with different management and (more often than not) different priorities. These divisions simply do not talk to each other, and when they do it is usually…
There are some practical reasons, and some pragmatic ones. A "thinking" device is a device that is consuming power to think (to run the processor), and hardware and software designers have to keep a core user need in mind: battery…