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A Perfection of Means and a Confusion of Aims

“A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem” – Albert Einstein My work involves helping people to understand how to best plan circumstances in which users are engaged and satisfied with their experience. Yet, I do not call myself a user experience designer. I am an information architect. I work on clarifying information and the structure it should take to best enable understanding. I create maps, controlled vocabularies, diagrams, flows, hierarchies, and statements of

November 13, 2012 Foundational Thinking / Process and Methods / Workplace and Career

Mythic Design

Posted by Christina Wodtke

When I agreed to teach a twelve-week course on user experience design, I did what anyone of us would do: I went to find something to copy. I trolled the articles and syllabi I could find online, and I was horrified. Sometime in the years between Jesse James Garrett’s lovely diagram and his incendiary demand that a room full of information architects, content strategists, and interaction designers rebrand themselves as user experience designers, user experience design had grown small. Jesse’s

November 13, 2012 Foundational Thinking / Interactivity / Professionalism / Workplace and Career

Whither “User Experience Design”?

Posted by Jonathan Korman

Like a lot of folks, I find the term “user experience design” awkward and unsatisfying, at once vague and grandiose, and not accurately descriptive of what I do. Too often it seems like a term untethered, in search of something — anything — we might use it to name. And yet I often call myself a UX designer, and have done for the last few years, because at the moment it seems to communicate what I do more effectively to

June 18, 2012 Foundational Thinking / Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

The Past and Future of Experience Design

Posted by Nathan Shedroff

Once there was a big debate on: Is experience design about online and mobile interfaces or is it something more?

Ten years later, not only is it part of our professional language, designers are exploring its potential, learning from everything from science fiction to behavioral psychology.

May 22, 2012 Learning From Others / Podcasts and Posters / Workplace and Career

Leaping Into Indie UX

Posted by Chris Baum

In this podcast, Chris Baum speaks with Donna Spencer, Lynne Polischuik, Justin Davis and Erin Jo Richey at the 2012 IA Summit about their panel discussion: “Taking the plunge: Diving into Indie UX.” They share practical and personal experience of being an indie designer.