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UX feeding usability through the buzzsaw. Kinda bloody.
February 20, 2016 / Interaction Design, Usability, User Experience Design, What I Do

Bad UX is Killing Usability. Everywhere.

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Several years ago, I started seeing troubling pieces come out suggesting that we Move Beyond Jakob Nielsen (I’m paraphrasing here). The implication: that we’d allowed designing for usability to create a failure of imagination. We’d impoverished web design and mobile in the service of a geeky goal we could now forget about now because, after […]

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March 19, 2015 / Electronics

Strange case of the Behringer PP400 MicroPHONO

David Cain / fix, help, LPs, problem, recording, repair, vinyl / 0 Comments

I’ve recently started turning my pretty-decent and long-missed LP collection into MP3 and FLAC files. Bring on the Tangerine Dream, Berlin-era Bowie and UK! I’d bought a Behringer PP400 MicroPHONO RIAA Phono Preamp to get the signal to a level where my Focusrite Sapphire 14 recording interface would get a good capture. Unfortunately, when I […]

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January 5, 2015 / Social Media

Wither Twitter. (Twither?)

David Cain / gtd, irl, leaving, social, twitter / 0 Comments

A longish piece. The tl;dr: Unusually, I’ve spent almost no time on Twitter for months, and can’t really say when or if I’ll get back in. Read on for why. At UX Week 2008, I discovered Twitter. Something I’d barely heard about at the time, but never tried. Those around me were holding a rich […]

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August 26, 2014 / What I Do, Writing

Don’t Spook the Cattle!

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All my life, people have told me I’m smart. And like other smart people, I have a problem: I imagine that others want to know as much about stuff as I do. And this threatens to spill out in my business writing, and that of the smart people I’m lucky to work with. Now I […]

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