Archive for April, 2009
Here Comes the Heresy
I’m going to commit heresy by disagreeing with Donald Norman’s article, “Words Matter. Talk About People: Not Customers, Not Consumers, Not Users.” In it, Norman proposes that we stop dehumanizing the audience for our products by calling them ‘users’ and refer to them as ‘people’. He recognizes the potential problem of there being multiple roles [...]
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My senior year of college I took a class entitled American Food in the hopes that it would involve a lot of eating. Instead it was a large amount of discussion, reading and writing on the subject of food and culture. Despite my inner glutton’s initial disappointment, I gained an appreciation for food beyond its [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )UX of the Alarm Clock
Every morning I wake up frightened. Not for a legitimate reason such as a bear broke into my bedroom or I’ve had a nightmare where I live in a world without tex-mex ; no. I wake up every morning and frantically scramble to turn off the alarm that is so horrifically noisy and obnoxious it [...]
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