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About Face (Part 1): Personal Connections
At 650 pages, About Face offers so many different entry points into the discussion about usability, interaction design, and graphic design, and industrial design. Looking back through my notes,...
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About Face (Part 2): Applying About Face to E-Texts
This is part four of a series of blog posts in response to About Face, by Alan Cooper, Robert Reinmann, and David Cronin. How might all these principles apply to e-texts? Although About Face focuses...
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About Face (part 3) About Face and Learning Spaces
This is part 3 of a series of blog posts in response to About Face, by Alan Cooper, Robert Reinmann, and David Cronin. How do we avoid creating situations where users get lost in the interface, or...
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About Face (Part 4): About Face and Teaching Writing
This is part four of a series of blog posts in response to About Face, by Alan Cooper, Robert Reinmann, and David Cronin. How can we use the versioning, auto-save, and undo capabilities to re-envision...
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About Face (Part 5): Using Idioms to Re-envision How We Understand and...
This is part four of a series of blog posts in response to About Face, by Alan Cooper, Robert Reinmann, and David Cronin. This is certainly the logest of the five-post series. Apparently I felt...
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Rhetoric Makes Me Cynical and UX Makes Me Critical
I remember voicing a complaint in my Historical Foundations of Rhetoric class several years ago that all this “rhetoric stuff” was making me cynical (well, even more so than I naturally am). I felt...
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Measuring Usability Blog
Stumbled on a blog called Measuring Usability that might be nice to reference later. A few of posts that caught my eye and stole about 20 minutes of my time: The Methods UX Professionals Use How much...
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Commonality: Final Product for Global Service Jam 2012
Over the past two days, I’ve had the opportunity to work with some incredible graphic artists, UX specialists, industrial designers, content strategists, copywriters, and social media experts. We all...
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Death to Word?
Not the written word, of course… just the application. At least that’s what Tom Socca is calling for in an article he posted last week on Slate called “Death to Word: It’s Time to Give up on...
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We Don’t Buy Products. We Buy Experiences.
Whole Foods. Audi. Starbucks. Moleskine. Each of these brands develop and sell vastly different and unrelated products, but it’s not just “stuff” they market to consumers, it’s experience. There’s no...
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