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Is user experience (UX) customer service, or a form of customer service?

I recently suggested to an anthropology and sociology student that they consider UX as a potential career industry. Here’s how it has played out. Back in January, I noticed this…

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Facebook Home for an evening

I was approached on Friday to download, install, use, and test Facebook Home as “the first to have it at AREA203 Digital” (see the original tweet). So, I did. I…

Indeed Salary search tool

How to find salary information for user experience positions

There are some really great salary calculator tools across the web. Whether you are happily employed in a job or just beginning your job search, rest assured there are plenty…

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How I optimized my LinkedIn Profile

In a previous post, I talked about utilizing the keyword metrics from LinkedIn to optimize my LinkedIn profile. I decided to monitor my top keyword as I continued making tweaks…

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Pat Benetar Day

Just because… On the way to work I heard Invincible by Pat Benatar, which launched me into a Pat Benatar kind of day. I threw together a little Spotify playlist,…

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Optimize your LinkedIn profile using Top Search Keywords stats

I recently had a discussion with one of my colleagues at AREA203 Digital about LinkedIn, wondering how I could use the various stats provided in my profile view to optimize…

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mental Entropy in the online conversion funnel

I just read Sell More on Your Website by Understanding a Bit About Entropy I first discovered the word entropy in the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Mental (or psychic)…

The curse of a design mind

While it is true that I’ve hung my graphic designer gloves in the trophy case, my mind never stopped designing. I see design as a verb. In my mind, it…

In common with Jeremy Hixon

LinkedIn finds commonalities between me and my peers

I like LinkedIn. Of all the social and portfolio aimed networks I have tried, I believe LinkedIn to be one of the leading in allowing me to expose myself, professionally…

Getting the post navigation to work in WordPress

This is the way I used the code for AREA203′s website, and it worked well. <?php $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; query_posts(“cat=4&paged=$paged&showposts=3″); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) :…