User eXperience and Design. Tips, tricks, or just snippets of my online finds, both praise for a job well done and gripes for shameful behaviour.
I discovered UX (User eXperience) as a discipline in 2002. I had been working with its principles in mind for more than ten years already, and it was a revelation to be told “look, there are books for how you think!”. Since then, I have been constantly learning, working, and expanding on the topic of UX in every aspect of work and life
Time to read: < 1 minuteWhile learning more about my discipline (user experience architecture), I discovered that I may have been mislabeling myself. There is a taxonomy matrix of skills / roles that has been developed by MethodBrain, and it doesn’t quite agree with what I thought was applicable. It is worth marking out the items on it that I […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minuteWas looking for interesting twitter statistics, and found this. I would like to suggest an amendment to the top 100 tweets. There is definitely room for “rants about bad transport”… […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesIf I had a penny for the number of times I’ve heard “send me the link” or “I need to bookmark this”… I’d have a whole lot of coins the vending machines won’t accept! Jokes aside, we need to talk about search. Give me two minutes of your time today, and I’ll save you ten […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesSo it’s been a little while that this launched in the UK. One week to the day, in fact. (19th September 2012 – we’re the 26th) I kept seeing it in the corner of my website of predilection (amazon – I’m a Prime member… I order a lot of things…) and thought it was about […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minuteSo this is how I packed this time. Usually, I’ll just toss all my seasonal / qualifying items on the bed in piles by type, and pick and choose my favourites to neatly fold into my suitcase. […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesIt all began with a simple tweet. Marks and Spencer advertised Autumn outfit ideas, and posted the link to a page with a nice scrolling gallery. Looked like flash. It wasn’t, it’s designed in HTML/CSS, making it in theory very accessible. I browsed the gallery quickly, all items popped up as “out of stock” when […] continue reading »
Time to read: 2 minutesWell this is new! Knowing from the get-go that my current position wasn’t going to last forever (nobody wants to clean powerpoints for a lifetime), and that there is no room for moving up, I have been contemplating labels, careers, paths, and suchlike, in an effort to figure out what it is that I might […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minuteI am no longer sure how I found them, but I just discovered theory design, a UX / UI company based in Canada. There was a blog post by someone about retro-style sites, and theirs featured. It’s pretty! I loved the colours and the very post-2010 single-page-scrolling content layout, complete with static header with cute […] continue reading »
Time to read: < 1 minuteLondon’s Waterloo station is getting ready for the Olympics. Today I noticed the absolutely huge panels covering the ticket machines. They’re nice, bright, visible from a distance, and -my favourite part- actually showcase a massive ticket! Instant recognition factor for anyone who’s seen a south west trains ticket before! I’m thinking it will also come […] continue reading »