Matthew Magain (@mattymcg) is co-founder of UX Mastery. Based in Melbourne, he works as a freelance designer, illustrator and entrepreneur under the name of Useractive.
He enjoys sketchnoting at conferences and spends his spare time writing and illustrating children’s books.
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Matt takes us on a retrospective for 2012.
In this post he shares the 10 articles on uxmastery.com that received the most traffic last year.
If you missed anything, now’s your chance to catch up.
We call ourselves UXers, and despite our different backgrounds and skill sets, we all have something in common. But what is it?
Matt ruminates on the attribute that makes UX Designers unique.
One question we get asked a lot is: can I be an effective UX Designer while working remotely?
Matt dives into the UX toolkit to explain which of the many techniques available can be applied in a remote capacity.
A couple of weeks ago, we ran our first ever reader survey, where we asked you to tell us who you were, how you came to work in user experience design, and what you wanted UX Mastery to become.
It’s time to reveal the winner of the super-mega-awesome-UX-book-bundle-thingy!
We haven’t posted any sketchnotes in a while.
Luckily, Matt recently attended Product Bash 2012, the end-of-year bash for product managers. He sketched the panel, and learned quite a bit about product management and entrepreneurship in the process.
UX Mastery has been live for a few months now, and if you’ve been following along then you’ve probably come to know a little about us. Now we want to know about you.
To entice you to open up to us and complete our (really quite short) online survey, we’re offering a carrot. Actually I tell a lie, it’s not a carrot—it’s much tastier than that. It’s the super-mega-awesome-UX-book-bundle-thingy, worth over $200.
Several years ago Matt had a career crisis—whether to become a UX generalist or a UX specialist.
Which are you? Which would you rather be? He attempts to help you answer these questions.
Today is World Usability Day, which exists to bring attention to the importance of usability and the role it can play in making a better world.
To celebrate the day, here’s a short comic about the struggles of being a UX Designer. Enjoy!
Amber Case is a user experience designer and a cyborg anthropologist—she’s a futurist, a technology enthusiast, and an entrepreneur.
She caught up with Matt to discuss wearable computing, location-based services, entrepreneurship, and what exactly it means to be a cyborg anthropologist.
Looking for a book to learn something specific related to user experience design? You’ve come to the right place!
We present, for your viewing pleasure, our list of recommended UX books.