user experience

Well, here I am in the city by the bay. A too long, got here late flight, a van ride in something that must be on its last legs, and a curry Thai dinner (with avocados, because it is California, damn it!) and a beer later, I’m back.

As with most things that people do, we all tend to focus on what we do and think that it's some measure of the center of what happens, but truthfully we're not.

Earlier today, Rhapsody launched a new MP3 store as well as many other initiatives (read the press release here). Users of Rhapsody's subscription service will feel at home, and users of its free streaming web site will notice similarities.

One interesting piece of news: Last week, Usability/User Experience Specialist was named one of U.S. News and World Report's Best Careers. And it had a nice little write-up. Pretty nifty.

I've actually had quite a bit of fun talking about what I do over the last couple of week with my job. I've been fortunate to basically fall into a profession that I really enjoy and feel like I have some kind

In a really transparent link-baiting, page-view inflating scheme, eweek.com is running a slide-show-ish “editorial” feature titled, “Should Facebook be Banned from Work?” (I hate doing it, but as a service to you, dear reader, here’s the link.)

I’m not even going to pretend for a second that I don’t think this is super-cool:

A couple of days ago I put down my Palm Treo in favor of a Blackberry Curve (the red 8310 to be specific). Why did I choose this phone?

Last month when I was advising people not to buy new cell phones, I did highlight three phones that I did recommend: the venerable iPhone, the Nokia N95 (which most people have never heard of or seen in person), and the latest incarnations of the Blackberry Curve (8310 on AT&T and 8320 on TMobile). In that post I said this about the Blackberry Cu

Traditionally, communication between developers and users has been sparse. Developers have always provided limited help through a single help window and users rarely get the chance to offer feedback and bug reports. However, those limitations have been changing in recent years. Many software developers have created help forums where users can discuss issues with other users and support personnel can also participate. In fact, in the past few years we’ve also seen the addition of feedbac

Google’s Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, revealed on the Today Show some recent Google Trends for 2007.

Fastest Rising US Searches
1. IPhone
2. Webkinz
3. TMZ
4. Transformers
5. YouTube
6. Club Penguin
7. MySpace
8. Heroes
9. FaceBook
10. Anna Nicole Smith
Presidential Candidates Searches
1. Ron Paul
2. Fred Thompson
3. Hillary Clinton
Top Google searches

Likes
1. File Renaming. Finder no longer selects the file extension when renaming files. A seemingly tiny change, but immensely helpful.

2. Tabs and themes in Terminal. What else can you say about tabs?