28: Don’t Bring Down the Pillow Fort

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In this episode, we bring in an expert: special guest Grant Barker. Grant’s hung out on our Slack channel for a while now, and always has good input. In this episode, we discuss his field of design: user experience—explaining what it is, and then focusing on how it relates to the Christian worldview.

Mentioned Links

• Grant’s UX Recommendations List
• Cooper | A user experience design and strategy firm
• Ethnography – Wikipedia
• Mutual of Omaha Life Insurance, Disability Insurance & More
• The User is Drunk
• The User is My Mom
• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition: Don Norman: 9780465050659: Amazon.com: Books
• Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Steve Krug: 9780321965516: Amazon.com: Books
• A Project Guide to UX Design: For user experience designers in the field or in the making (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler: 9780321815385: Amazon.com: Books
• The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter): Jesse James Garrett: 8601300202648: Amazon.com: Books
• Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice | TED Talk | TED.com
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less: Barry Schwartz, Ken Kliban: 9781491514238: Amazon.com: Books
• Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
• PG-13 at 20: How ‘Indiana’ remade films – TODAY.com
• jared spool – Google Search
• (33) Jared Spool (@jmspool) | Twitter
• UX Magazine | Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX)
• UXmatters :: Insights and inspiration for the user experience community
• allen cooper ux – Google Search
• Adaptive Path
• Luke Wroblewski (@lukew) | Twitter
• LukeW Ideation + Design | Digital Product Strategy & Design
• About Luke Wroblewski
• one tab chrome add in – Google Search
• Joe’s featured image for this episode