Nick Finck

The Cross-Channel Experience in Lisbon Jan 24th, 2012

The nice folks at UXLX in Lisbon, Portugal have published a video of my talk on The Cross-Channel Experience for your viewing pleasure.

Gifts for User Experience Geeks 2011 Nov 28th, 2011

It is time for another installment of Gifts for User Experience Geeks! Just in time for the 2011 holiday season. Be sure to check out the last three years (2008, 2009, and 2010). This list is a collection of items I have come across over the last year that would make the ideal gifts for UX geeks like Information Architects, Usability Specialists, Interaction Designers, and even Web Designers. I also put the call out to several of my colleagues to contribute suggestions and I have included those where I felt they were a good fit. Thank you to everyone who contributed! Hope you like the list. If you notice something not on my list or have corrections for the list let me know!

The UX of Productivity in the Future Oct 27th, 2011

By now you have seen the video released recently from Microsoft about productivity in the future. It highlights a bunch of interesting uses of technology that largely exists today in some form or another mixed with a bunch of smoke and mirrors for things that may be technically near impossible to implement depending on how you interpret the video. It’s a great exploration in to the art of interaction design as it relates to how we could potentially interact with information and the world around us, but there is something the video doesn’t cover…

I don’t think the problems of tomorrow will be about being able to get useful information, it will be finding value and meaning in it. If this sounds familiar to you it should, I have said it countless times before. This is precisely the kind of problem that needs to be solved by user experience professionals, specifically in the content strategy and information architecture disciplines.