Sam Rhee

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Interaction designer, miniatures painter, father and musician, not in that order. Well, maybe in that order...

Recent blog posts written by Sam Rhee

Heart Mind

Subject & Object – It Takes Both to Tell the Story

There is a question that I ask of all UXA interviewees; it’s a question that I’ve been asked at almost every interview as well. “If there’s a conflict in opinion between the customer (or engineering or visual design) and UX over an interface element or workflow, how do you typically resolve the issue?” My boilerplate [...]

Communities and Abandonment

The Internet has matured to the point where its “history” is starting to become open to interpretation and there are entire memes, technologies, and highly-trafficked sites that have actually faded from memory. Geocities, Lycos, Mosaic, AskJeeves and a slew of others may have a legacy within other things, but the original flavor and intent are [...]

Behavioral Inertia, The Other White Meat

Working as a user experience architect for some of the most iconic brands in U.S. history has kept my mind spinning as of late. Part of it stems from the sheer  responsibility I feel to the brands themselves.

The Perils of Reverse Context

I am one of only a handful of Asians living in my small Northwest Indiana town. In fact, there are very few minorities at all in Crown Point, Indiana (the town made famous by John Dillinger and his soap gun). There are many bizarre situations one encounters when one is a yellow M&M in a [...]