Emily's Playground: Kevin Wong: 8 lessons as a UX professional
Kevin Wong gave an informative and engaging talk, “8 lessons as a UX professional,” at the University of Washington’s Information School in late October. Since graduating with his BS in Informatics from UW in 2007, he’s worked as a user researcher (and designer) at the design firm, Artefact….
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Emily's Playground: Informational Interview with Artefact's Kevin Wong
In late October, Kevin Wong gave a great talk at University of Washington’s Information School about his experience as a UX professional. Kevin is a user researcher (and designer) at Artefact, a design company that I’ve been watching for about a year or so. He received his BS in Informatics…
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Drewbot: Device Specs have Become Meaningless
We’ve talked before about the diffusion of physical, contained devices across servers and services. The iPhone 4S’s Siri only works with the help of a server farm in North Carolina. The Kindle Fire’s Silk browser derives a speed boost by routing requests and processing through Amazon’s web…
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the understatement: Roboto vs. Helvetica
Google announced the mouthful known as “Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich” today. The first bullet point of their presentation was a new system-wide font, Roboto. John Gruber quickly pointed out what had caught my eye as well: Roboto sure looks a lot like Helvetica, the typeface so famous they
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