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I write about design and stuff.
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→ Designing for the Power-User
Users generally want to be in control of the system that they’re using, but sometimes it’s alright to put on auto-pilot and let it do the work for you. With most systems, the more advanced the user…
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→ Do One Thing and Do It Well — A Unix Philosophy
Unix has been powering the majority of internet for some time now, and it’s likely the operating system that’s running your phone among a myriad of other devices that are part of you life. Unix, in…
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→ The Accessibility of Web Maps
You may have heard of accessibility as being referred to as A11Y. A11Y is what’s known as a numeronym. The first and last letters of “accessibility” are preserved, replacing the remaining letters…
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→ The Information Architecture of Web Maps
As a UX/usability designer, one of the things that I always consider when designing interfaces and experiences is what’s known as Information Architecture (IA). IA is an important part of designing…
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→ The Usability / Functionality Trade-off
Imagine you were designing an app that did a thing. And the only UI component of that entire app was a button that said “Do The Thing“. Your users would push it, the thing would happen, and that…
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→ The usability of all these new TLDs and .me
A TLD is a Top Level Domain. It refers to the part after the last period of a domain name. eg., .com, .ca, .net, .org, etc. The world is running out of domain names. Many of the common words and…
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→ You have skills, everybody else doesn’t.
One of the more difficult parts of a usability designer’s job is empathy. The ability to think like the user, feel what the user is feeling, and be able to predict what your user will do, then…
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