NASA outdoes itself
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Apr
2012
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Pictured above is not a work of art, but it should be thought of so as such. It's a rendering of surface ocean currents by NASA. That's right, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration! Wow. In an article brilliantly titled Better Than A Van Gogh: NASA Visualizes All The World’s Ocean Currents by Mark Wilson, [...]


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Does customer attachment to an item override UX annoyances?
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Apr
2012
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When I was at B&H Photo years ago, there were lots of bugs and clunky behavior to the website. We did our best to prioritize and squash these annoyances, but there are still plenty today. However, sales were always consistently high and the company does an astounding business online. More curious is that there are [...]


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Seattle 2012
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Apr
2012
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I lived in Seattle during the dot com boom. I haven't been back in 10 years. It has changed in places, but to me, it hasn't really changed at all. The same chairs at the same restaurants and bars I used to go to are still there. And it's still so beautiful and peaceful. An [...]


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New Artspace UX for product framing, filtering
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Mar
2012
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Today Artspace.com unveiled new product framing user experience (via user interfaces) which I designed and tested. Let's have a look. Frame Selection When selecting the size of a work via a radio button, the frame selection slides smoothly into view. The white frame is default by business requirement. As a customer, you can select any [...]


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Trippin' With Marty
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Mar
2012
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One of my favorite people in New York City is Marty Wombacher, who was behind the A Guy Walks Into 365 Bars, the much-loved Marty After Dark, and now Trippin With Marty. The guy knows NYC and knows how to have a great time. Once in a while I'll be lucky enough to hang out [...]


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