A co-worker of mine pointed me to this video on YouTube, Stone and Stone Wheel. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about innovating versus adhering to convention and when and when not to pay attention to user testing data, and this video really got me thinking.
I remember way back in 1999 observing my first user [...]
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to the promotional site of Erick Clark, an Austin, Texas, based user interaction and visual designer. I specialize in the creation of innovative and unique online user experiences. I've been working as a designer for more than ten years, feel free to take a look at my portfolio and my resume.Latest Blog Posts
The New York Times article and the survey it covers reminds me of a blog post I wrote for my old blog about what referred to as offline cookies. I may be in the minority on this one, but I actually am OK with user/consumer behavior tracking, just as long as people are not identified [...]
The New York Times has an article titled Two-Thirds of Americans Object to Online Tracking, which summarizes a recent study about how people feel about the tracking of user behavior. Apparently people don’t like it. But I think people lie. Here’s a quote from the article:
Marketers often use teenagers’ behavior on Facebook as anecdotal evidence [...]
Gizmodo has gotten their hands on a video demo of super secret project inside Microsoft called Courier. Courier looks to be an evolution of the tablet PC only designed more like an actual notebook. It’s composed of two touch screens hinged together (at least they look hinged together, the demo never shows the device in [...]