Untangling the Concept of User Experience

Consulting firm NN/g who are widely considered the authority on usability say that user experience ‘includes all the aspects of the interaction between the end-user with the company, its services, and its products.’ If this sounds really broad, it’s because Donald Norman who’s one of the N’s in NN/g coined the phrase “user experience” because Untangling the Concept of User Experience

Walter Starts a Blog

A new blog is here, and this time it’s going to stick around for more than a few months.

Fixing banding stripes in gradients

In digital graphics, a phenomenon happens called “banding” where big stripes appear over gradients. Early in my career I didn’t know what to do with these, and I thought maybe something was wrong with my monitor. But it’s actually a common problem, and quite simple to fix.

How to know when it’s time to leave a job

When should you leave your job, and when should you stick around? And why might people on your team be leaving? Since I’ve recently changed jobs and folks everywhere are also deciding to change things up, I thought it would be an appropriate time to dust off this entry I wrote back in 2018 about the Three P’s.