Author Archives: Rob Adams

Get Your Design Out of My Content

On Monday, I attended a course taught by Edward Tufte on Presenting Data and Information. I’ve flirted with Tufte’s ideas before, and Tufte fans may recognize some of them from Designing for Flex part 5 – Designing content displays. This … Continue reading

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RIA Accessibility and the Law

I found an interesting news article on the IxDA list today concerning an accessibility lawsuit brought against Target by the National Federation of the Blind. One of the findings of the federal district court was that “web sites such as … Continue reading

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MAX Talk: Creating Learnable Applications

Thanks to everyone who attended Stephen and I’s talk at MAX 2006; I thought it went pretty well and we already received some great feedback. I’m looking forward to getting the reviews! Since I’m not sure if the organizers are … Continue reading

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Ideas in the World

My friend Dan has started a little blog project called “No Ideas But In Things”. Although the name is quite a mouthful (it’s inspired by a poem) I love his premise. Basically Dan is collecting pictures of artifacts out in … Continue reading

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Inaugural Post

Welcome to User Eccentric! I’m Rob, one of many user experience professionals doing my life’s work in San Francisco, California. At the moment, I work for Adobe Systems, Inc. as the user researcher for our Flex product line. I’m in … Continue reading

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