Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? McKinsey Settles for Nearly $600 Million Over Role in Opioid Crisis is the latest in a long history of big consultancies putting their own interests above everything else, including ethics and human lives. Specifically: The settlements come after lawsuits unearthed a trove of documents showing how McKinsey worked to drive sales…
Tag: UX
UX: The Trouble of a Term
The term UX (user experience) has probably come to the point where it’s becoming more misleading rather than encouraging, aspiring, or clarifying. “…the term [User Experience] has spread widely, so much so that it is starting to lose it’s meaning. …user experience, human centered design, usability; all those things, even affordances. They just sort of…
From Visual to Behavior and Beyond
Where do we start to establish a UI pattern library? A visual standard? A UX standard? Start pushing the pixels is a good first step to facilitate discussions. While the challenge is that user experience is more than meets the eye. The more precise we want to be, the more issues we may have to…
Bookview: Experience Required by Robert Hoekman Jr
Experience Required: How to become a UX leader regardless of your role by Robert Hoekman Jr The Bottom Line Your first book towards a designer career and constant reminder of any career, because, seriously, you don’t get such sobering insights and decent advice very often in life or career. Official Summary For all the resources…
Apple Watch Has No Selling Point
No, it really doesn’t have one besides, presumably, its fashionable design. After the Mar. 9 Apple Event, comments about Apple Watch are everywhere. Besides the positivity from Apple fans, another common tone is about doubt. Some people, especially those who actually touched and reviewed the real product, in one way or another, can’t seem to…
iOS 7 First Impression: Consistency and ZUI
“Are you watching closely?” The Buzz iOS 7 announced. Everybody is talking about it. Some claim they love it, others hate. And there are always people out there crying out around the concepts of confusion, disappointment, and innovation. Are you watching closely? Disappointing UI Style? Some people just don’t like it. Fair enough. The existing…
7 Tips For Requirement Interview
ABSTRACT Requirement identification/analysis interview, client/user interview, stakeholder meeting, requirement interview, insights research,… whatever it’s called and whichever part of the process it can be applied, some people (with whatever title) get to talk to stakeholders and/or clients, in order to understand their problems, needs, and wants. Here are seven tips I find to be quite…
One-Hand First: Rethinking Mobile UX
ABSTRACT Mobile devices are supposed to assist us in meaningful context, not to overwhelm us by stealing our precious limited focus of attention. Having to frequently use both hands to operate on a large touch screen mobile device is simply NOT right when it’s supposed to be convenient. We need not only Mobile First UX,…
Book – Thoughts on Interaction Design, 2nd Edition by Jon Kolko
Although I started my translating “career” 12 years ago (I had been translating and writing C/C++ articles and was once well-known for that in the relevant community), and although I had been a well-respected editor who had helped/assisted many translators on translating, I never did “serious” translation work until the year 2011. And the result…
Book – Intersection: How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap between Business, Technology, and People
Intersection 1st Edition NOTICE: This post is NOT about the content or idea of the book, but about what it remind me of. Sorry for the post title — it’s just a teaser and origin of thoughts. Came across this book lately. Haven’t read too far. The scope seems broad (it is) and the goal…
