As the title suggests these articles are about encouraging people, be they developers, designers, students, product managers or even just interested bystanders to take a dip into the stimulating, refreshing and thirst-quenching world of user experience (UX). Whilst it’s more than just good common science, user experience certainly isn’t rocket science (despite what Steve Krug might lead you to believe from the title of his latest usability book – Rocket Surgery Made Easy) and it’s something that everyone can do. To this end I’m going to be sharing, discussing and generally commenting on UX ideas, tips and practices that everyone can use to help design a better user experience for all.
Jakob Nielsen has likened usability to cooking in so much as “everybody needs the results, anybody can do it reasonably well with a bit of training, and yet it takes a master to produce a gourmet outcome”. I’m not sure about the gourmet part but if UX and usability is like cooking then that sort of makes me Delia (a famous TV chef and fellow Norwich City supporter), so in the immortal words of Delia – “LETS BE AVIN YOU!”.
About me
Little ol me...
Well my name’s Neil Turner and I’m a former techy (well I’ve got a Computer Science degree) turned UX Jedi. I’ve been working as a UX consultant and designer for over 6 years and have an MSc in HCI from University College London. I’m currently working as a senior UX lead at Thomson – the UK’s leading travel operator and am responsible for leading the UX for various IT projects. I’ve previously worked for an industry leading usability consultancy, full service digital agency and top 10 UK ecommerce website.
I currently live in Cambridge and along with being a long suffering Norwich City FC supporter (come on the Canaries) I spend far too much of my free time out on the bike enjoying the soaring hills flats of Cambridgeshire.
Even more about me…
If you’re very keen you can find out even more about me on my LinkedIn page.
