John Boykin

Senior User Experience Architect & Researcher

Applegate LLC

BIO:

John Boykin answers to user experience designer, information architect, interaction designer, information designer, and UX researcher. He’s been doing all of the above for over 10 years. Clients include Walmart, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, Blue Shield, Bank of America, Visa, Symantec, NBC, HP, Janus, Prosper, and Mitsubishi Motors. His site, wayfind.com, will tell you more than you want to know.

ON THE WEB

Website #1:

John Boykin's portfolio site

Website #2:

Satisfy the Cat, a.k.a. User-Centered Design

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Simplicity, It’s Complicated

While it's wise to strive for simplicity in product design, the ultimate goals should be ease and clarity of use.

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Everything I Really Need to Know about User Experience I Learned in Sunday School

Childhood lessons in good behavior and solid decision-making can be invaluable assets to UX practitioners.

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Half-Math and That Gushing Hole in Your Bucket

An intercept at the start of checkout on your e-commerce site frustrates users and may cost you far more sales than it gains you.

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Minimum Viable Date

A comic that satirizes the notion of Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

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Probability: A UX Designer’s Second-Best Friend

In UX design, applying a solid sense of probability often determines whether we come out ahead or behind.

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The Entrance Is the Exit … Obviously #wtfUX

At the Palo Alto Medical Foundation clinic, you might easily find yourself going in through the out door.

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UX Haikus

UX Magazine contributor John Boykin shares some thoughtful musings on user experience in the form of haikus.

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Stop Helping Me, Google Calendar Autosuggest #wtfUX

Had Google thought more about probability than about throwing in their existing technology just because they could, they would have left autosuggest out.

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