The Big Web Show

Hosted by Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman.

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Episode 8: User Experience Design


Published on June 17th, 2010 Video hosting & analytics by Wistia
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Twitter is RSS in 140 characters. It did what RSS promised me it was going to do for my blog ... bring it to where people are already playing. — Whitney Hess

Show Notes

Dan and Jeffrey talk with Whitney Hess about social networking, getting clients, and user experience design—from research to wireframes to testing and beyond.


Guests

Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess is a user experience design consultant based in New York City and a Senior Experience Designer at Happy Cog. Previously, she was on the design team at Liquidnet, and an interaction designer at two marketing agencies, Digitas and Tribal DDB, where her clients included American Express, The New York Times, Allstate, Claritin, Tropicana, and EarthLink. Most notably, she helped to conceive, design, and test an innovative card search tool for American Express, and is named as a co-inventor on its U.S. patent. Learn more about Whitney Hess »


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