My Interview with Google UX
One day in May 2011, I was contacted by a Google recruiter to apply for a job on the Google UX team. I made it to the all-day onsite interview in Mt. View. Google was *awesome* to work with, and the whole experience was an honor and educational journey. Out of respect to Google and [...]
Viewport and Screen Resolution
Preface: I am not suggesting that you abandon best practices and trying to easily include as many edge and near-edge cases that you can. I am just trying to point out a line of diminishing returns, and eventually you’re optimizing your sites width and usability for the grandma at the library kiosk on a [...]
UX Roles and Terms – What do they mean?
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. UX is all the rage. It’s always been around, but now it has its [...]
Grid based CSS: Bluprint CSS Framework
I recently started spinning up HTML projects using the Blueprint CSS framework. It’s quite a fascinating way to construct your page. I have been familiar with the 960px “safe” width for visitors who are on a 1024×768 resolution monitor, and often prepare my Photoshop documents to adhere to that standard. I even would go so [...]
SibuBeauty.com Rework
Here is a work in progress for SibuBeauty.com, a rework of their site. These are hi-fidelity mockups of the homepage, the product group page, and the product display page. The original pages are included for reference. There will be more on this site in the UX portfolio once it is finished. Sea buckthorn skin care [...]