Justin Baum

User Experience Head :: San Francisco office

Justin serves as our head of User Experience design. He resides in San Francisco. He most recently served as a user experience designer at Apple Inc, and prior to that worked at Kurt Noble Inc and, not coincidentally, The Barbarian Group. We’re happy to have him back. Justin really likes RSS feeds and social-objects.

Vancouver trip

I had a blast in Vancouver for a quick 4 day vacation. Spent a lot of time outside walking around and checkin out the city. Verdict is its absolutely beautiful and kind of a combination of Portland and San Francisco….

Busyness

Haven’t updated in a while. Mostly been heads down at work on a big project and traveling a lot. SXSW was a blast. Eventually I will post something about that and the awesome panels. Other than work/travel I have finally…

My brand is a round peg and Facebook is a square hole

The one thing I have come across in the past 6 months of watching brands try to fit themselves into the Facebook mega-trend is that – if you can, make a game, do it, do it, do it. Everyone likes…

Using the product is the new sign-up process

We are all sick of signing up for new services on the web, and a lot of times we don’t even end up using the services we sign-up for. For designers the sign-up process is something that needs to be…

New Blood

I am excited for these artists to make some moves in 08. I think all 3 have the potential to appeal to a broad audience. It will be interesting to see how they choose to go forward given the current…

Favorite albums of 2007

Most people rush to post their yearly top tens before the ball drops. I decided to let the year sit for a while before I passed judgment and immortalized my chart in the blogosphere for all 12 of my readers…

Issuu

Having been messing with Issuu for a bit now. It is a web based PDF viewer with a really nice interface. And like all good apps these days I can embed the PDFs anywhere. For those people reading in RSS

Building community, thoughts, patterns and best practices part 2

I recently came across a talk from the end of 2006 by Jyri Engstrom (the founder of Jaiku) about “Growing networks around social objects” (Bokardo with the tip off). I really like the language Jyri uses to talk about the…