July 1, 2009 User Experience design is not data-driven. It’s insight-driven. Data is just raw material for insight.
via @inkblurt on twitter
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June 29, 2009 I got the new iphone over the weekend. I bought one for my wife too. And I passed my 1st gen phone to my 13 year old son.
What is amazing and easy to forget after two years, is how this phone changes what a cell phone is for people. To see the iphone through my wife’s and son’s experiences as new users was quite spectacular.
It is easy, perhaps at this point even lazy, to use Apple as ‘go to’ example of user experience. But as I watch my family use these devices, I note that it is also an appropriate example.
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May 12, 2009 Several weeks ago I wrote about my visit to Fresh Seasons, the new store in Victoria, where I live. My first impression was that it was fantastic.
I was going to write that same week, but thought I’d wait to see if the store could sustain those good feelings. In short, they have.
The store still looks great. When I walk in, the fruits, vegetables, fresh bread, and flowers all look and smell wonderful. The store is very clean and well-staffed. I’ve never had more than one person in front of me in line at the store.
This past week, I went to buy some spaetzle. They didn’t have any, but when I asked a worker there, he didn’t just tell me he didn’t know, or say know, he found a manager and asked and the manager then told me they didn’t have it, but that he would order some for me and make sure they kept it in stock.
As someone who works on user experiences I am pleased to say that the user experience at fresh seasons is as good on day 31 as it was on day 1.
Well done Fresh Seasons.
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April 8, 2009 The Library of Congress now has a YouTube channel and, as the blog states, they are going to take a deliberate approach as they did with Flickr, which is great news.
Library of Congress Blog » YouTube, and Now We Do Too (Library of Congress)
http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress
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April 5, 2009 I live in Victoria, MN, a small town of about six thousand people 35 minutes southwest of Minneapolis. This weekend was the grand opening of Fresh Seasons Marketplace, a mid-sized grocery store, in our downtown. I was a skeptic, not looking forward to what this would do to traffic or parking in our one stoplight downtown, and sad that our local butcher, Mackenthum’s, closed up shop. I was also pessimistic about what the quality of the store would be.
Happily, I was at least wrong about the store itself (parking and traffic jury is still out.) It seemed like all of Victoria was in the store on Saturday, and everyone was in a great mood. The employees were all very cheerful and helpful, and the store itself was fantastic. They have a ready-made foods area that looks great, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh bread, and what looks to be a great seafood counter. And, as someone who works from home most of time, I was thrilled to see they have sushi at a reasonable price. I will definitely be stopping there to pick up my lunch often.
I’ll post more with pictures later in the week.
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