The Frontier of User Experience

In the months I spent figuring out what was going to be my next move after Adaptive Path, I spoke with many folks about the transition. And in that process I began to realize something that I had never articulated. Up until a few years ago there was no better place to push the boundaries [...]

What Experience Design can learn from this week’s Top Chef

No spoilers for the first four paragraphs. This week’s episode of Top Chef was likely the best of the season, and definitely featured the most inspired and, according to the judges, delicious cooking so far. Chef Tom even said it was among the best single meals ever served on nine seasons of the show. How [...]

Work With Me: Senior User Experience Designer

As I hinted in my post about joining Inflection, I’m looking to bring a number of senior folks on to the user experience team. My priority is to hire a Senior User Experience Designer. One way I’ve been thinking about it–I’m looking for someone to be a Riker to my Picard. I can do that, [...]

Optical Illusion Nerdery

As a kid, among my favorite books on my parents’ bookshelf was Light and Vision, from the Time-Life Science Library. . And my favorite part of the book were the optical illusions, such as the two-pronged object that somehow morphs into 3 cylinders, or the square of stairs that go up forever. (And, yes, I [...]

Top Chef: Season 9, Episode 10: Restaurant Wars

This episode was indicative of the season as a whole: meh. I had thought that the first episode premise of whittling 29 chefs down to 16 was going to deliver us a higher caliber of contestant. However, this crew is decidedly middling, and is providing for some uninspired television. This week gave us every TC [...]

Geek raising a non-geek

My son, Jules, is 3. It’s the age where he very much gets interested and excited about things. He was an astronaut (“on a rocketship to the moon”) for Halloween, and loves looking at the moon, and playing with toy space shuttles and rocketships. He likes racecars, airplanes, robots, and castles. In talking to other [...]

Why aren’t the Apple sites linking to this?

I’m something of an Apple fanboy (my first computer was an Apple ][e, I was the one kid on my dorm floor with a Mac SE, I own a MacBook Pro, iPad, and iPhone, and I follow a bunch of Apple blogs), so I was quite interested in as my podcast app served up the [...]

I Have A New Job: VP of User Experience at Inflection

Last March, I went out on paternity leave for the birth of my daughter Dorothy. Knowing I’d not have the opportunity again, I took as much time off as I could. During that time, I realized that I was no longer passionate about design consulting. Having done it for over 10 years, I felt it [...]

Top Chef, Season 9 Episode 9: BBQ Pit Wars

Remember: there will be spoilers. Oh, I did enjoy this episode. Good cooking, some drama, and another win for Paul’s Wonder Palate. A month ago, I tweeted: Every time I hear Nathan Myhrvold speak (this time on Freakonomics podcast), I want to punch him in the face. December 7, 2011 9:12 am via Twitter for [...]

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