Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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UX Garden
Do you keep a vegetable garden? I do. I guess people would call me a gardener, but that would be a stretch! As each sign of Spring begins to appear in the dank-cold of winter, the garden in my dreams – the garden I know I can create – begins beckoning me to action. And…
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Recipe of me
I worry a great deal about revealing too much of who I really am in my online writings and probably a lot of that worry is warranted. Still, there is something to be said for celebrating the humanity we all share with the hope that all will come out clean in the wash. I…
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To-do lists
Locusts chirp this morning like slow motion waves of sound broadcasting the local weather forecast: hot as hell. The rest of the house is sleeping except for me and the cat who is cleaning her front paw, but missing and inadvertently cleaning the foot stool we’re sharing. She is annoyed. She is usually annoyed. So…
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The “X” in UX design
It isn’t really surprising to me that people sometimes think I handle usability for web sites. You know, I make sure they work right and do what they are suppose to do. To a large extent, that is true. Making sure the links work, the navigation makes sense, SEO plans are in place, testing the…
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Writing for the web
If you want to learn how to write for the web, let me Google that for you. Seriously, there is so much information on this subject it is mind-blowing and most of it is, in my opinion, very, very good. That’s because most of it relies on the seminal research done by the great Jakob…
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Paying attention to User Experience Design
UX Design is not, not, not usability testing. Here is a great interview with my hero Jesse James Garrett about this concept of creating experiences for end users. It is very well done. Mashable video interview of Jesse James Garrett And if Mashable had played well and put the video in YouTube, I would have…
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