Earlier this week I was invited to present at the first Houston Pecha Kucha (pronounced “pe-chak-cha”) on November 19th at Domy Books. I’ll be speaking about my new experiments using comics to enhance my UX documents and just generally soaking up the creative buzz that will likely be permeating a building full of progressive [...]
Like all information graphics, user task flows are meant to be visual representations of abstract concepts. Specifically, they are meant to convey a path or paths that a user is meant to take through a website or application, a map, as it were. The most accepted and predominant visual format that information architects use for [...]
I’ve made it no secret that I love the music game genre; Guitar Hero and Rock Band have been staples in my house for nearly as long as colorfully-buttoned plastic guitar replica game controllers have been around. Lately, though, there has been talk of “oversaturation”, that the market has peaked. DJ Hero challenges that assumption, [...]
IS09- Intro to UX
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Last month I spoke at Interactive Strategies ‘09, an annual event held by the Houston Interactive Marketing Association. Having gone the previous year, I was struck by how incredibly lopsided the panel line-up was: all anyone wanted to talk about was social media. Don’t get me wrong, [...]
Last week I flew up to San Francisco to check out the upcoming music game DJ Hero. How was it, you ask? An absolute blast! Let’s just say the game felt a little more Harmonix than Neversoft, and considerably different than Guitar Hero. I think I sum it up well:
DJ Hero has always [...]
My review of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is up. I enjoyed the game, but it didn’t have quite the spark that the first one did for me (which I finished). My biggest beef with it is how far they strayed from the Civil War storyline, both in terms of actual occurrences (which I can generally [...]
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Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy With Human Behavior by Indi Young
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This strikes me as the REAL reason why social media is booming right now and possibly isn’t a fad as some might think: Empathic Civilization, a very enlightening and entertaining animated whiteboard drawing of Jeremy Rifkin’s talk at RSA.
Take a look at this UX Maturity Model; Where do you think your city is on the scale? Maybe I’m just down on Houston, but I’m inclined to think that we’re somewhere between tier 1 (“Unrecognized”) and tier 2 (“Interested”).