ux in the wild

NO WIREFRAMES? OH MY!

NO WIREFRAMES? OH MY!

As a former producer who’s been through the product/project life-cycle end-to-end many times, I love this infographic by the User Professionals’ Assoc. that tells the story from an ideal UCD perspective. In the real world, however, we go way off road from this tidy, step-by-step game path in order to meet tight timelines and budgets and [...]

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THE MACHINE STOPS: E.M. Forster’s sci-fi scenarios are manifest (editorial)

THE MACHINE STOPS: E.M. Forster's sci-fi scenarios are manifest (editorial)

Many of the sci-fi scenarios in E.M. Forster’s story, A Machine Stops, written in 1909, have come to be.

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IA/UX MEETUP: Significance, Search & IA

IA/UX MEETUP: Significance, Search & IA

UX in the Wild -February 12 2013 Significance, Search & Information Architecture Piecora’s Pizza in Capitol Hill, Seattle WA This month’s Seattle AI/UX Meet UP group featured Ruth Burr of SEOMoz and Ian Lurie of Portent who spoke about the relationship of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to Information Architecture and User Experience. So much of [...]

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UX IN THE WOODS

UX IN THE WOODS

UX in the Wild – Oct. 2, 2012, Heather Lake, Granite Falls WA

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SUPER-HERO TEAM SHARE THE LOVE (podcast)

UX in the Wild – Sept. 25, 2012 This is from a podcast on UIE with Stephanie Sullivan Rewis and Greg Rewis titled, “What Designers Need to Know About HTML5 and CSS3.” The interview focuses on what designers should be aware of when handing off files to a front-end developer. I found the tips relevant to UX [...]

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DESIGN THINKING (workshops)

DESIGN THINKING (workshops)

UX in the Wild – Sept. 22, 2012 I took a sunny Saturday in Seattle to attend two workshops sponsored by IxDA (Interaction Design Association) and Puget Sound SIGCHI. The workshops were part of the 2012 Seattle Design Festival. Both workshops were hands-on and experiential. They put the “work” into workshop as we formed groups to play out [...]

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DOUG BRIGHT’S ACCESSIBILITY APPS

DOUG BRIGHT'S ACCESSIBILITY APPS

UX in the Wild – Aug 27, 2012 My friend Doug Bright considers himself a musician, journalist and philosopher, but not high-tech. So I was surprised how many apps he is using or that are on his radar to help him get around, be productive and tune in. But where does he find the time? [...]

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V-BRAILLE (accessibility app)

V-BRAILLE (accessibility app)

UX in the Wild - Aug. 29, 2012: Seattle WA Today I met with Richard Ladner, Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. The interview was regarding a project he is leading – a touch screen game for blind children to learn braille. The product is called, V-Braille. V-Braille is touch screen game [...]

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WHY UX IN THE WILD?

WHY UX IN THE WILD?

UX is architectural. It extends beyond the boundaries of a monitor into the environment. It is design for the human in their space, from smart homes to smart phones, from road signs to buying a car. Karen Holtzblatt, the CEO of InContext Design writes in her blog posting on CHI 2012, “I believe that the next real [...]

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TOE TIME

UX in the Wild - Aug 11, 2012: My home, Seattle WA I used by toe to check the time on my iPhone. [end of story]

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BAD UX IN THE BIKE LANE

UX in the Wild - July 21, 2012: Seattle, WA on Dexter Ave The bus islands on Dexter Avenue have led to too many cyclists being killed and wounded. The bus islands were intended to prevent the bus from stopping in the bike lane. But the design that was implemented created a problem much worse than [...]

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MOBILE USER TESTING

MOBILE USER TESTING

UX in the Wild – July 18, 2012: Aquent, Seattle WA Mobile Usability Testing presentation I attended a IXDA (Interaction Design Association) sponsored talk on “Mobile Usability Testing,” presented by Interact Seattle. Tom Pease from Analytic Design Group spoke about how mobile usability testing is all about context. He began with three statistics* on mobile [...]

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MUXSEA (unconference)

MUXSEA (unconference)

UX in the Wild – May 19. 2012 – MobileUXcamp Seattle MobileUXCamp Seattle describes itself as an “unconference; bringing together professionals, academics & enthusiasts to share the current state and future direction of mobile technologies.” I had considered representing the mobile app company I work for, but once I arrived I was glad I didn’t [...]

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INTERVIEW ON BACKSTAGE BUSINESS

INTERVIEW ON BACKSTAGE BUSINESS

Aug. 17, 2011 John Lucchetti, Founder of BackstageBiz.com, asked me to talk his audience of up and coming artists about my experiences as an interactive media professional. John’s inspiration for Backstage Business is to mentor young artists from a range of disciplines (filmmakers, graphic design, sound design, musicians, 3D animators, etc.) on how to navigate [...]

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