If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I had marked the reasons for transitioning from a technical writing role to an user experience role. Last week, Tech Writer Voices had a podcast on the same titled Transitioning from Technical Writing into Usability. Theresa Putkey, a usability [...]
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With Flavorists and Brewmasters for company…
Fast Company talks of Ten Jobs You Didn’t Know You Wanted – Creative, challenging, and highly rewarding, these careers, while not always top of mind, aren’t merely desirable—one of them could be your dream job. And one of them is Interaction designer.
Interaction designers work at all stages of product development to design innovative and [...]
Stopping by Woods
It’s been a while since anything happened here. Things have been a bit hectic since my last post and a lot of progress has been made both professionally and personally.
Flow in design
Flow is one of those things that are hard to describe and are best when experienced. The general description of the word (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) is ‘To move or run smoothly with unbroken continuity, as in the manner characteristic of a fluid’.
Flow is, in the words of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, “being completely [...]
Another year gone by
I once read that birthdays are good for you; because the more you have, the longer you live.
“Here lies
interred in the Eternity
of the Past,
from whence there is no
Resurrection
for the Days—whatever there may be
for the Dust—
the Twenty-seventh Year
of an ill-spent Life,
Which, after
a lingering disease of many months, [...]