Archive for the ‘user experience’ Category

I’ve been thinking about how reading apps could take a different tack. How they could be calmer. How they could leave the to-read pressure behind and restore some enjoyment into reading.

I’ll be speaking at the fifth IA Konferenz in Munich this May; my first, long overdue, trip to Germany.

Evidence that, despite my scepticism, there’s something in this technology-as-behaviour-change-catalyst argument.

Peter Merholz’s rant is bold, uncomfortable and dogmatic, as all rants should be. I’d like to make a more reasoned case for the offense.

Several weeks ago, I opened a late-night email from Livia Labate, the IA Summit conference chair. I responded with blinking disbelief, the sort you get upon learning you were raised by wolves.

UX Storytellers, World Usability Day, UX London and SXSW. Acronyms ahoy.

I’m hardly a design dogmatist, but it’s time for an exception. All around the web, hover states are being abused, and only you can put a stop to this.

The eleventh IA Summit found strength in reconciliation, but the spirit of free speech still ran strong.