In late 2010 I set out to find a new UX job in London. I’d like to share with you some of the things I encountered on my quest for a workplace. 1. Know yourself. The first thing I learned was that, although the job title might be the same, User Experience Designer can mean [...]
As the field of UX is growing and we have to tackle more and more challenges, we can no longer reach out for our old tools and methodologies. Jesse James puts forwards a concept to see UX design for the web as one of the many forms of experience design that exist. Liz comes at [...]
A while ago I answered some questions for .Net magazine about my work at Webjam, only a few quotes got published, so it seems like a good idea to share my answers with the world. What does user experience mean, as far as you’re concerned? User experience is about aligning the existing elements –information, visual [...]
Are those who use a Moleskin more successful, richer and more creative? Maybe a weird question. Logic tells you “of course not!”, writing in an expensive notebook should not differ from writing in one that you bought for a pound. But think with me for a moment, to be able to buy a Moleskin you [...]
In this article I want to discuss the relation between emotion and design, but first let me say why I think that we are having this discussions at this very moment (and not a decade ago (or next decade)) I see five reasons. Interaction design is more than graphic design on a screen or industrial [...]
This review is of the book Neuro Web Design – what makes users click by Susan M. Weinschenk. As the title suggests this book is supposed to be about what web designers and web marketeers can learn from ‘recent’ insights from psychology to build websites that are better up for their tasks. I.e. how do [...]
As I pointed out in my previous post, I think that there is still something missing on all the great diagrams that are already made about design. And that is “why bother about design in the first place”. I placed my writings in a nice little diagram that hopefully explains what I meant, but also [...]
I came across quite some sideshows, some arguing quit strongly against calling the artist formally known as interaction designer Tafkid now a user experience designer. Are You An User Experience Designer Although i do agree with the key ingredients of this presentation, I also think one should avoid wasting ones time on defining meaning of [...]
Emotional design, or should I say, emotional technology, sounds like a concept or thought up by hippies, or some Japanese scientist on a remote island (Aibo anyone?). Though in his book Emotinal Design Donald A. Norman explains that, although most technology is without any soul, we humans, trained for social interaction, are capable of putting [...]
De volgende tekst gaat over de overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen het Semantisch Web (een artikel van Tim Berners-Lee uit 2001 over hoe computers data kunnen begrijpen) en het recent populair geworden begrip folksonomy (een manier van categoriseren door gebruikers). Het gaat in op de begrippen zelf, de huidige voor en nadelen en geeft een toekomst [...]