Jerome Covington: Dev

Archive for the ‘ux’ Category

In Deference to the Human Interest

I don’t think it’s a stretch to acknowledge that there are plenty of problems that humankind faces that just will not be solved by the Internet. Which then begs the question: what problems, if any, are worth solving? The Internet is a network. And not simply a network of “things” but a network that serves [...]

Belling the Cat

Are we on track for a future where the skills of a developer will become all but ubiquitous? Will there still be a place for product managers and UX designers unless they are not merely conversant in the tools of a developer, but proficient? Will fluency with code be a bare essential? Or, put another [...]

User Experience is Nothing New…

(…though it can lead to extraordinary results.) The fact that you can get a group of professionals, like engineers, who stereotypically can have the tendency to be singularly, rationally focused, to start thinking in terms of personal experience, emotion, and storytelling as being of primary importance in creating human-centered products is amazing. But, it is [...]

End to End User Experience

“End to End User Experience”…the idea that all developers, not just those who develop the UI (and the designers they partner with), need to safeguard the quality of the user experience. I really truly believe that the optimum user experience can only be realized from a technical perspective when the code from server to browser [...]