Pop quiz: How many years of experience in UX does it take for someone to be a “senior” designer? Two years Three years Five years Ten years The answer: Depends on what job description you’re reading. But I wonder if time is the right metric for measuring experience. When you get enough drinks into designers, … Continue reading “What makes a senior designer?”

February 1998. 23 years old in my first “real” job: full-time, permanent, with benefits and my own cubicle. You know that administrative assistant who gets a little over-creative with Word or Publisher? Yup, that was me. My cube neighbor, a marketing guy just six months older, “did the website” for the office. I was terribly … Continue reading “The first a-ha”

I got suspicious when Lauren’s chat bubbles turned green. She used an iPhone, so when we kept in touch over text, it was via iMessage, which uses blue chat bubbles. When one of those bubbles turns green, that means it was sent over SMS, old school. There are a number of reasons this could happen, … Continue reading “Passing Away In Pixels”