Blogs
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Number 9: Names, Facebook, and identity
Deborah Tatar Posted: Thu, July 11, 2013 - 10:42:20
Facebook recently informed me that my name is deborah.tatar.9. Oh. Really? I grew up in a sub-culture of America that believed in sending kids to sleep-away camps to get them…
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When A/B testing gets an F
Jonathan Grudin Posted: Tue, July 02, 2013 - 11:33:18
A relationship is like a shark, it has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. —Woody Allen,…
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Enterprise users just want to have fun!
Monica Granfield Posted: Fri, June 28, 2013 - 11:27:35
The bounce of the screen on the iPhone is so much fun that new users often keep pulling the screen down again and again, just to see the action happen.…
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Hair of the Monkey King
Tek-Jin Nam Posted: Wed, June 19, 2013 - 10:31:48
Technologists are like magicians. They make dreams reality. In mythical stories, magic is the art that makes the impossible possible. Seven-League Boots is the art that contracts space. People using…
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HCI/UX in China: A trip report
Aaron Marcus Posted: Fri, June 14, 2013 - 12:04:13
How are product/service human-computer interaction design and user-experience design doing in China, you ask? Well, as they say, we live in interesting times. I shall give you a personal update…
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Color and user experience
Ashley Karr Posted: Thu, June 13, 2013 - 10:48:11
Take away: Proper use of color can enhance the user experience of any design as color affects humans psychologically, physiologically, and emotionally. Emerald is: “Lively. Radiant. Lush. A color of…
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A slow triangulation
Jonathan Grudin Posted: Tue, June 04, 2013 - 1:47:16
In the mid-18th century: "Does Britannia, when she sleeps, dream? Is America her dream? - in which all that cannot pass in the metropolitan Wakefulness is allow'd Expression away in…
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Are you trying to solve the right problem?
Richard Anderson Posted: Tue, May 28, 2013 - 12:44:25
I just looked through the variety of graphical depictions of the human-centered design process that I show to and discuss with my master’s degree students during the first class of…
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Why I lie to my kids
William Gaver Posted: Wed, May 22, 2013 - 2:52:21
When she was about five, I told my daughter Emmie about a girl named Priscilla who swallowed toothpaste instead of spitting it out after brushing. She did this every day,…
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UX research vs. UX design
Ashley Karr Posted: Tue, May 21, 2013 - 11:17:20
Take away: We research to understand the world. We design to change the world. The user experience (UX) professional’s role in any design process exists along a continuum between research…