Author Archives: Caterina


The myths of innovation

Hey - quick plug that Scott Berkun is going to be speaking at the next VanUE meeting (May 24th). You can find out more at www.vanue.com - spaces are going fast, so if you’re in the Vancouver area on the 24th and you want to attend, please RSVP ASAP (haha). It’s also the last session [...]

Integrating User Experience with Engineering

It’s an exciting time at Habanero! We’re making great headway with creating much closer ties between our UE team and the Engineering folks as we strive to knock down those silos that can threaten to isolate one department from another.
One of our developers, Daniel, asked if I’d like to write up a blog posting on [...]

UE & Presentations

Ben and I recently attended an Adaptive Path conference in San Francisco about managing user experiences, and it rocked. I plan on blogging about the conference shortly, but I thought I would first write about something related to the conference: the user experience of sitting through presentations.
Most people hate giving presentations. Fair enough. Standing in [...]

Search User Experience

We are all spoiled by the Google search user experience — enter a term and you generally get usable and relevant results. What a concept! For the most part, we don’t see the same user experience on website search engines. Even if the results you get back are relevant, they are often displayed in such [...]