thanks for the blog entry. Having worked at Microsoft too, I enjoyed to read it. However I can not understand your sentence about the iPhone. The phone would pass with honors. The UX of it is the most intuitive interface I have ever came along in my entire live. There is one button! One, that always, absolutely always with an absolute reliability brings you back to the homescreen. It was a gift from T-Mobile and having made jokes all the day long with collegues at Microsoft about the phone, I was totally going to sell it for around $1000 on ebay. I almost despised Apple coming out of MS. But tell you what, 60 seconds after turning that phone I was mesmerized by it. Youtube started to show me HD content with not a sinlge judder, the phone immediately saw my WLAN, I logged in after 10 seconds. I exactly remembered the countless culprits and shortcomings of the HTC Touch I enthusiastically bought a year ago. They were incomparable. Needless to say, I kept the iPhone and started to pay close attention to other companies UX approach.

I have had your blog on my RSS radar for quite some time and totally enjoy your articles. I’m actually quite excited that you found value in this post and you are absolutely correct – the more we discuss the more we grow.

This is an article that cuts to the core of why and how I got started in UX so many months ago. A lot of what I found is that there’s a significant disconnect between being interested in UX and actually finding the resources to get better that that kind of work. Reading is one thing, but a lot of what someone needs to grow as a UX practitioner is the environment in which to grow. Far too often, the research that we need to read or the work that we need to take is unaccessible to people interested in UX.

The irony is pretty intense. Anyway, as a way to cope with this intense learning curve, I started my blog, UX Booth. It’s good to see that you too are interested in UX and that you’re blogging about it. The more conversations we have, the more we learn, the strong our community will become.

Thanks for the article!

Our marketing agency has designated a position purely to user experience, and it’s become a reoccurring theme on our small, but expanding new blog.
Anyway, thanks again and I look forward to reading future posts.
If you get a chance, check out our blog at:
http://blog.directpartners.com/user-experience/what-is-user-experience-and-why-is-it-important/

-MM

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