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My new CMSWire article is now available! They get exclusivity for 90 days before I can post it here, so please go read User Experience Is a Specialty: Treat It As Such. Preview: User Experience Is a Specialty: Treat It As Such How do software development teams deal with bottlenecks when one teammate is overloaded? […]

My new CMSWire article is now available! They get exclusivity for 90 days before I can post it here, so please go read Good Design Is Intuitive. Preview: How Do You Write Instructions for an Audience Who Isn’t Reading? The general rule of thumb in UX is: Don’t give people instructions. If you ask someone […]

Happy Anniversary, Walt Disney World. You were very influential during my childhood and influence me even today. I consider you my third home. I’m here now for one of your Disney Institute courses. But I’m having an experience that makes me want to get someone’s attention and see if I can create change. First, Some […]

Our 6+ hour self-paced video workshop is now available for purchase. The first chapter (roughly a half hour long) is available as a free preview. DevOps ICU: Improving DevOps Results by Integrating UX Practitioners and Processes UX specialist Debbie Levitt takes you on a journey through understanding what UX does, what the full process is, […]

Some UX practitioners have responded negatively to some of the copy around our new DevOps ICU training program, aimed at non-UX roles. They’ve seen the site or our ads and didn’t like how we phrased things. For those who haven’t seen, some of our website and ad copy echo negative things non-UX roles believe about […]

In September 2018, Skype made the tech news announcing that a redesign would be coming, roughly a year after their last redesign. The goal would be to simplify and remove many of the features they added the year before. These new features were designed to emulate Snapchat and (supposedly) attract younger customers. The backlash was […]

I met some startups recently at an event. And it made me wonder: how close might Google be to releasing something just like what this person is doing? One guy was trying to make an app for his city’s mass transit service. It was outside of America and (I guess) something Google hasn’t put into […]

ADA Compliance for websites, mobile web, and digital interfaces is USA law. This might be news! But everybody was supposed to be compliant as of January under WCAG standards version 2.0. Version 2.1 was released on 5 June 2018 and of course, you are expected to keep up with new versions of the standard. But […]

I’ve been ordering protein powder jars from another country. It’s the best deal I can find! I’m desperate here! 🙂 The website with the best price and ships to where I am is a decent website. Good UX. Nice features like easy re-ordering. But there is one place where it can improve. I can only […]

Are you a junior UX practitioner in your first or second job… and you’re at a smaller company with no other UX workers… and you don’t have anybody to support you, check your work, help you level up, or work with you on avoiding or resolving conflicts? Are you a company with only one UX […]