by Theo Mandel | Jan 3, 2013 | Product Design, Real-World Usability, Technology
Great advice from a world-famous Boulder start-up mentor and founder, Brad Feld. Give Before You Get
by Theo Mandel | Jan 3, 2013 | Product Design, Real-World Usability, Technology, User Centered Design (UCD), User Experience
Happy New Year 2013!! Here’s a great blog post about integrating your work and your life and living DESIGN! Enjoy! 5 Ways to Begin Designing Your Life in 2013
by Theo Mandel | May 5, 2012 | Product Design, Real-World Usability, Technology, User Centered Design (UCD), User Experience, Web Usability
KISS – Keep it Simple, Stupid! This has historically been a top-level goal for user experience professionals . However, as this blog post describes, achieving simplicity is not a simple exercise. There are many aspects to simplicity. It’s not as easy as...
by Theo Mandel | Mar 3, 2012 | Product Design, Real-World Usability, User Centered Design (UCD), User Experience, Web Usability
Worth a read! New book available (for free!) – Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving is presented as a handbook for teaching, learning, and doing meaningful disruptive design work. The book includes an introduction to...
by Theo Mandel | Sep 27, 2011 | Application Usability, Product Design, Product Development, Technology, Usability Consulting, User Centered Design (UCD), User Experience
As an independent user experience (UX) consultant, this year has been very busy, with more and more companies and clients realizing that user experience and usability is a critical component of any product or device’s design and and development process. Want to...
by Theo Mandel | May 12, 2011 | Application Usability, Healthcare Usability, Product Design, Product Development, Real-World Usability, Technology, Users
This is a classic debate – whether it is nobler to be consistent or to be usable! EMRs have notoriously been both inconsistent and also very unusable. So, what to do – fix the inconsistencies or fix the usability issues? The problem is, fixing one of these...
