Today I am officially launching everydayUX.com. In an effort to avoid redundancy, I’ll let this snippet from the About section give you a sense about what I’m trying to do here:
The genesis of this site is two-fold. Part of the inspiration came roughly out of the experience of my Take One A Day photography project I did in 2007. Taking photos at such an accelerated pace not only got me more comfortable taking photos but it also forced me to always be hyper-aware of my surroundings.
When the project ended and I was thinking about what I wanted to do this year. I thought it would be interesting to apply that same attention to detail to the design that we encounter on a day-to-day basis.
The second is an interest in tracking and discussing design and innovation, mostly as it relates to the field of interaction design. I hope to supplement that with a regular stream of photos/screenshots, etc. of “design in the wild”, so to speak - interactions we have every day, both good and bad - and what we might hope to learn from them.
My personal interests lie firmly in mobile, social, locative technologies, gadgets and gaming so I’m sure those will also color the overall flavor of the site. That being said, I’ve learned that the structure and direction of sites of this genre has to remain flexible and fluid so I hope that the content will be interesting enough to entice readers who are willing to follow along.
I have some ideas I want to try out as things progress but am always open to more. Please send any thoughts or suggestions to ux@everydayux.com.
About me
Starting on February 12th, I’ll be working at Schematic in New York City as Director of Multi Platform User Experience - an opportunity I’m very excited for.You can check out my portfolio site or find me on LinkedIn, Facebook, dodgeball, flickr, twitter, last.fm.
Prior to working Schematic, I’d spent some time working at various interactive agencies (Razorfish, Gotham Broadband, R/GA and IconNicholson) in various capacities as well as a few years as a co-founder of a startup called dodgeball, that my friend Dennis Crowley and I sold to Google back in May of 2005.
I live in Brooklyn, NY with my wife Karen and our dog, Sasha. On the side, we maintain our own blog, Team Kane Street.
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