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This blog is meant to simply provide opinions and reviews of things I encounter–whether those things are other blogs, restaurants, movies, golf courses or just about anything else.

Web Design in Higher Ed Doesn’t Have To Lower Academic Standards

Does web design deserve its place on college campuses alongside English, engineering, and art history?

Experience Design Doesn’t Stop at Interface Design

Delivering a premier customer experience requires more than an attractive user interface.

AllTop.com features the erova notebook

Alltop, the “digital magazine rack” of the Internet, recently began promoting the erova notebook’s articles.

Shunning Cute Design: Identifying Anti-Patterns

As design pattern discussions abound, understanding and avoiding anti-patterns can enhance a user interface, and likely, the user experience.

CTIA’s Perception Vs. Our Reality: Mobile Device Usability

The BBC cites research that adding more features to devices increases complexity and user frustration, despite marketing messages indicating otherwise.

Interview Expectations: A Candidate’s Perspective

Chris provides reasonable interview expectations from a user experience candidate’s perspective.

Interviewing from Both Sides of the Desk: 30 Experience Design Questions

Evans’s 30 Experience Design Interview Questions are tough for the candidate, but also the interviewer.

UX Remix: UPS Tracking Screen

I take up Jared Spool’s challenge to redesign UPS’s package tracking screen to downplay corporate lingo and prioritize customer-centric information.

When the UX, well, SUX: How to improve the user experience when the boss says “no”

We don’t always have the luxury of working with perfect clients or sublime art directors. But there are opportunities to enhance the user experience even when crippled by draconian design guidelines.

User Centered Design in Task-Focused Web Interfaces

How can User Centered Design principles exist within an Agile development environment?
I researched how user experience consultants must provide value as waterfall methodologies dry up and timelines become more aggressive.