I got my invite to Medium!
Medium.com, that is, for you untrendy people out there. Kinda like WordPress in the old days, but with notes instead of comments, a pleasant, uncluttered interface for writing and a small community (at least for now) so you still feel like you’re being heard. It’s still in beta, so after signing up it’ll be a while […]
Inanimate
My first foray into physical computing and Arduinos was an art installation. It didn’t work out exactly as planned, as things of this nature are wont to, but I think the end product was interesting. I learned a lot. As Charles Eames said, The details are not the details. They make the design. I made […]
Paypal Examples
I’m checking out PayPal’s shipping label service - did you know that through them you can buy shipping labels from USPS or UPS, and get your parcel picked up at the door? – when I noticed the examples they used for names: Chinese names. Interestingly enough, Xiaoming (小明) is the equivalent of John Doe when […]
A Gift in the Mailbox
Today my uncle checked the mailbox and found an envelope with my name on it. It was soft, not at all heavy, and came in that familiar shade of brown and blue – Tufts colors, colors that I once found mildly drab and off-putting. I opened it and found an ocean more of blue. Nothing […]
Sketchboards and other UX design processes
Talk about meta: some user experience (UX) designers conducted user research on other UX designers to find out how they do UX design in practice. In short, they concluded that most UX designers eschewed most bits of canonical user centered design methods in the interest of time. Sad, but not unexpected. The article also unearthed common […]
Article: Designing For Android: Tips And Techniques
A fairly in-depth article on how to design for Android: http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/26/android-design-tips/
Online Usability Testing!
I just discovered a suite of online usability tests provided by some company called Optimal Workshop. They offer three different types of tests: Online card sorting: participants generate categories for a list of items. Useful for designing information architecture. Tree testing: see how easy (or difficult) it is for participants to find a topic in your […]
Design for Readability
Design for Readability – UX Booth | UX Booth. A great article on making more readable and attractive layouts on the web. I’m still not happy with the design of my portfolio website, especially the layout of individual posts, so we’ll see what I can do about it.
Interactive Storytelling
I’m a big fan of the Sims, even though I don’t get to play it often enough. I like the way stories evolve out of seemingly banal gameplay, the flexibility of it. So when I discovered the free iPad version, I was on it immediately. Of course, it, being free, came with advertising. It only […]