Call me UserX. The design of everyday things has a big impact in life. With a little user testing, these everyday things would make life on Earth much more pleasant. The carriage at the local Maxi grocery store is one such example (see the post). Well-thought-out doors are another. UserX shares his views in this blog.
UserX is not a User Experience (UX) professional but has been contributing to software design and performing testing on users. While at first UserX believed that a great user experience was magically conjured up by an all-knowing genius designer, UserX now knows that frequent real-world testing with real users during the design cycle is paramount to making sure you end up with a problem-free design and pleasing user experience.
UserX's inspiration is Bruce Tognazzini, with whom UserX took a terrific 3-day seminar on human/computer interaction design in New York. "Tog" spent 14 years at Apple and founded the Apple Human Interface Group. UserX encourages you to visit his web site at http://asktog.com/.
UserX would also like to throw out a link to Jakob Nielsen at http://www.useit.com/, from whose columns UserX learned much.
Yes, UserX likes to refer to himself in the third person. :)
