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because they are in crisis

by !undefined

“Why do I tell this story? Mostly because it’s an example of a problem that found a solution, rather than the other way around. But also because it illustrates why people require solutions in the first place: because they are in crisis.”

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Amy Chess, The User Experience of….Fixing Things

She brings up a good point here about empathy: that it’s the critical tool in the UX researcher or designer’s toolkit because she is not faced with the same motivation-generating crisis that the person on the other end of the problem is.

HELP WANTED: User Experience Researcher/Designer

by Rob Friesel

Job Type: Full-Time/Regular Job Level: Mid-Career (2+ years) Years of Experience: 10+ Years Level of Education: BA/BS/MA/PhD/MFA/DDS Job Description Metavaprwaresoft.ly, a fast-growing VC-backed lean start-up, is seeking experienced, skilled, and passionate innovative interactive interface interaction designers who dive in head-first and seize challenging applications by the horns. We are looking for developers that blur the […]

Linkdump for February 13th

by Rob Friesel

Opera Developer News – 300 million users and move to WebKit Big news from Opera. I can't decide if this is a relief, or a disturbing trend toward a kind of WebKit monoculture. These were my mixed feelings, and I had a hard time articulating them. Fortunately, Robert Nyman and John Resig expressed it all […]

“Is it a button?”

by Rob Friesel

It started simply enough.  A simple 1 question:  “Is it a button?”  Referring to this: This is (of course) the “All Sizes” button for any given photo on Flickr.  And (also “of course”) depending on how pedantic you want to get and/or how technical, it’s arguably not a button at all: …it’s an <a> masquerading […]