Honesty online, it’s all in the eyes
How to encourage honesty online.
UX
User Experience (UX) is where I came from. 15 years of working on UX projects, relaunches and redesigns on some of the biggest properties on internet.
Reassuring people about privacy is counter productive
Or don’t talk about privacy and security too much.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need: Psychology Myth Busting #1
The first in a series of four posts busting some psychology myths.
Privacy, security and usability, choose any two
Each can conflict with the other two making a digital product with all three very difficult to design. It ends up being a choice; Usability, Security or Privacy. Choose two of three.
Focus Groups, User Experience and the yellow radio
Or are focus groups worthless.
Strong ideas, weakly held.
Or advocating with humility.
Why Information Architecture is not Architecture
Or why we should be a bit more humble in our choice of job titles.
A lesson in the importance of kerning.
The unfortunate story of Clint and his tattoo.
Digital Arts Magazine: Ethics and Design
In Digital Arts Magazine this month there’s an interview with me and other UXers discussing the use and misuse of psychology in design.
Data Dehumanises
It’s a staple for me on the projects I’ve been working on for the last 2 years. Data, lots of data.
The internet has enabled so many new ways of doing this. Buy this, sell that, book this, auction that, search for this, share that.