Vote for UX Design of the Year: Finalists help users across investing, data analysis and more The finalists for UX Design of the Year at the 2024 GeekWire Awards are helping end users across home building,… Read More
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Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad If it wasn’t enough to be a co-founder of what could be the longest running UX shop in the U.S.,… Read More
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Geek of the Week: In tech’s big picture, Google Clips UX researcher Eva Snee focuses on the user Eva Snee works on a gadget that many folks may not even be aware of yet. The important thing, for… Read More
Two Seattle UX design companies join forces as Blink acquires Tectonic The Seattle-based user-experience research and design company Blink has acquired a little help in the design department by purchasing Tectonic,… Read More
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Advice from a former Apple director who coined the term ‘user experience’ Having worked on Apple’s User Interface Technologies and introducing the term “user experience” to company execs in the early 90s, Mitch… Read More
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