At 90, She’s Designing Tech For Aging Boomers
NPR just posted this article about a 90-year-old woman recently hired as a designer at IDEO. What a great idea! As designers, our job is to understand and design for our intended audience. However, older designers may have problems identifying with younger users and...
User Experience News: Traffic light lets you play Pong with person on other side – installed in Germany
User Experience design is all about creating enjoyable user experiences, either in software/hardware computer platforms or in real-world situations. Here's a new experience designed to entertain people while keeping them safe from traffic! Back in 2012, a trio of...
“Using your UX super powers for good or evil” – Mandel’s IUE2014 conference presentation
June 11, 2014 US Airways Corporate Headquarters, Tempe, AZ Conference website For many years, I've written about and presented on the "Golden Rules" of UX design - where our UX design powers are used to do good things for users. This presentation focuses on the dark...
Mandel to present at IUE2014 Conference in Tempe, AZ – June 9-11
June 9-11, 2014 US Airways Corporate Headquarters, Tempe, AZ Spotlighting methods for dramatically improving today's user experience This year's conference will be held at the US Airways Corporate Headquarters, which is located in the heart of the Mill Avenue...
Mandel featured Panelist at IxDA Phoenix 2013
IxDA Phoenix Design Week "Methods + Madness" Panel Monday, October 21, 2013 University of Phoenix Sperling Center Tempe, AZ Event Brochure | Storify Photos | Facebook Photos | Event Announcement Theo Mandel was a featured panelist at IxDA Phoenix for...
Mandel’s IUE 2013 Presentations
Theo Mandel organized and presented at the ninth annual Internet User Experience conference (IUE 2013), April 2-3, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona. Theo's presentations were featured on SlideShare immediately after posting and have over 3,000 views to date. View Mandel's...
UX Conference in Phoenix this week!
Theo Mandel is one of the organizers and presenters at the ninth annual Internet User Experience conference - IUE 2013. The April 2-3 conference in Tempe, Arizona, highlights top industry speakers, practitioners, and authors to provide attendees with a complete...
Arizona World Usability Day – Video
Mandel organized the Arizona World Usability Day event on November 8, 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The wildly successful event was captured on film and is now available on the World Usability Day YouTube Channel. Check out the Arizona WUD event on the World Usability...
John Karlin, Father of Touch-Tone Dialing, Dies
An obituary in the New York Times highlight's John Karlin's historic influence on digital dialing. Karlin died on January 28 at the age of 94. Ed Israelski, a well-know human factors professional, was fortunate to work under Karlin at Bell Labs. Karlin designed the...
Who owns your UX philosophy?
"I’ve been in three board meetings in the last month where it was painfully apparent that there wasn’t a person in the company who owned the UX philosophy of the product. I’m explicitly saying “UX” (user experience) rather than “UI” (user interface) as each company...