Hi, I'm Josh, a freelance UX designer based in Brooklyn, NY. I design systems that increase efficiency, fun and socialization. If you're part of a cool company or project, I might want to work with you. Learn more.
Make it as easy as possible for the first-time user to get to the system. One brilliant way to do this is to not require email confirmation after sign-up, but rather to let the user continue straight from the sign-up form to the system. Eliminating the email confirmation step streamlines the process from sign-up to sys ... Continue Reading
Twitter is a great way to share useful bits of information with your colleagues while at the same time defining your personal brand and letting the world know that you exist. One feature that I discovered today was the way that the system handles long URLs. I was surprised to find that Twitter automatically shortened m ... Continue Reading
Wouldn’t it be great if you could update your contact information in all of your social networks at once? What if you could take that idea a step further, and automatically sync your info with organizations’ databases? No more filling out forms in the hospital waiting area. Or anywhere. Ever. Meet the Soc ... Continue Reading
There should be an intuitive way to permanently ban a site from becoming a Top Site in Apple Safari 4.0. The design: My favorite feature of Apple Safari 4.0 is Top Sites, where the user can select from a grid of their most visited sites whenever they start Safari or open a new tab. In this column, Redesigning the best, ... Continue Reading
As a Hapa and a designer, I'm offended by the denotation of the Asian race with the color yellow. Designers must consider all aspects of a design, including not only aesthetic but also cultural factors. The graphic designer who created the Asians for Mike Bloomberg logo ostensibly chose vivid primary colors to go w ... Continue Reading
Augmented reality: Neat gimmick or technology of the future? Georgia Tech and SCAD Atlanta’s ARhrrrr, An augmented reality shooter. BMW UK | New BMW Z4 | The BMW Z4 in 3D Augmented Reality. Kotaku – Augmented Reality Camera Game Coming to DSi – Ghostwire. GE | Plug Into the Smart Grid | Augmented Real ... Continue Reading
This is a great example of a form requiring too much information. I filled out all of the fields and pressed continue, but nothing happened. I pressed continue again, and then a third time. Finally, I saw the tiny red Required text near the Title field. “Reduced object visibility may inversely impact usability ... Continue Reading
Tab Kit 0.5.5 One thing I miss about Firefox 1.5 is the ability for tabs to become gradually smaller as the user opens more of them. The tabs could get a little scrunched, but at least they were all visible on the screen. After Firefox changed to scrolling tabs from 2.0 on, it became clumsier for me to navigate through ... Continue Reading
The popularity of the iPhone has yielded a comprehensive set of resources for designers to use to create prototype interfaces for iPhone applications. These resources include a rich set of stencils that can be freely downloaded from the web. Stencils are available for many of the most common tools that designers use to ... Continue Reading
