Changing Passwords Sucks! 5 Tips To Make It Better
This past weekend I tackled a long overdue task: Changing all of my old and not-so-secure passwords. (What can I say… These are exciting times.) Even though change password functionality has been around since the dawn of the Web and is a cornerstone of account security, I was shocked at just how many sites made […]
It Was A Good Week For User Agreements
If you’re like me, you watched (or at least followed the news coverage of) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress this week. After all, privacy is an issue that customer experience champions should always have top of mind. But there was one moment in the hearings that particularly struck me: Republican Senator John Kennedy’s […]
AT&T Nails SMS
As I was turning on my phone after touchdown in Toronto a few days ago, I realized that I hadn’t set up an international mobile plan for my trip. Ugh. I was in the process of making a mental reminder to log onto AT&T’s website once I got to my hotel room when I got […]
The Disconnects Among Today’s Customer-Centric Disciplines
When I learned about the field of user experience in the mid 1990s, its primary objective—making technology easy to use—was easy for me to grasp. My education in cognitive science, psychology, and computer science gave me tools and frameworks that I could immediately apply. Service design took a bit longer for me to grok. […]
UX for Good 2014: Harnessing Emotion to Prevent Genocide
Have you ever visited a Holocaust museum or genocide memorial? What did you experience? And how did you feel after you left? UX for Good is seeking to convert the raw human emotion evoked by genocide memorials into meaningful action that will prevent future atrocities. In June, they’ll be sending a team of 12 user […]
