Usability Experience (UX) Evangelists

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Oh me, oh my. Usability Experience (UX) is the latest catch-phrase being espoused (from what I can tell) by Microsoft (MS) to describe their "new" user experience paradigm. Of course, the "user experience" has existed as long as there has been users, and to call it "new" is highly rhetorical, but at least MS are prepared to acknowledge that the "user's experience" in worthy of attention, and involves more than just the user's interaction with a form or property dialog.

I am a UX evangelist, and have been ever since I first experienced the woeful Graphical User Interface (GUI) design of MS Windows based applications ever since my daily interaction with them from 1986. GUI is a generous term, as back then, they were little more than electronic typewriters and calculators.

This earlier user experience involved lines of monochromatic (green-on-black or white-on-blue—if you were lucky) ASCII text scrolling up 10 to 13 inch cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor screens. Remember the good-ol'-days? 

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