Good experiences are invisible and hardly ever seen. Bad experiences scream out at us and are impossible to ignore.
It is standard for a User Experience Designer to have a passion for the people, but occasionally they forget about the business that serves them. Christina Wodtke (twitter) gave the attendees of the IA Summit a reminder of why keeping the business in mind is important for any design project. The following are my tweets from her session:
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