User Experience - Sam Hardacre

User Experience

A collection of 10 posts

Surprisingly poor Nintendo experience...

For better or worse, we bit the bullet in 2024 and got our kids each a Nintendo Switch Lite for their birthdays. I have the app on my phone which allows me to set daily time limits, disable capabilities around interacting with people online etc. Those aspects have been working

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Sod the users, full screen ads work!

As I was scrolling through my twitter feed, I came across a tweet from CreativeBloq sharing an article, which I thought I'd give a quick glance. After a short delay, my entire browser window was taken over by an ad. I brought this up in the office and

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UX crash course

Found a useful resource on my travels through the world of Twitter this afternoon. The author describes the motivation behind the idea: > My New Year’s Resolution for 2014 was to get more people started in User Experience (UX) Design. I posted one lesson every day in January, and

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User Experience is...

> User Experience is the responsibility of every member of the organization; it is a central philosophy, shared principles. It is not a series of activities and deliverables to perform, but an enlightened way of being. I found this paragraph of text particularly interesting but the rest of the article

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Thinking beyond the web

A couple of things has shaped the way I approach projects recently. Discussing design with Tim [https://twitter.com/timharbour] over beers has shed light on a better design process. And seeing Aral Balkan [https://twitter.com/aral] speak at Wuthering Bytes [http://wutheringbytes.com/] last month has started to

Build anticipation. Deflate.

My twitter stream has been going a bit wild with updates about the launch of, and subsequent delay in use, of the new Mailbox app [http://www.mailboxapp.com/] on iPhone. There seems to be a mix of anticipation and "meh" over their chosen roll-out method so I

Remember the context

While I've been applying media queries to projects for a couple of years now, I'm still learning new tricks and discovering things that I've not really thought of before. One of these discoveries happened recently while working on a new project... I sketched out

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Just a thought

Like many people, I use my iPhone all day every day. I use various apps for various jobs and on occasion I like to share certain bits of information on a social network like Twitter or Facebook. There's one thing about sharing on iPhone which has bothered me

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Sainsbury's missing a trick?

This morning I went to my local Sainsbury's to pick up a few ingredients for a birthday meal I'm cooking for Luisa. I wandered around with my shopping list and picked up what I could find. After my shopping trip, whilst eating my breakfast I decided