Grant Houston

Lead Product/UX/Interaction Designer and IA with unrelenting passion for creating transparent, intuitive and engaging interactions in the world around us.

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@AstrablueAI Absolutely beautiful and tear-inducing. Incredible!

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

The actual link is: https://t.co/FwIe6lhbry

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

Latest Disney project just launched! So happy to have been the Lead UX Designer BackOffice apps on Movies Anywhere. https://t.co/r5LoWtkkKm

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@Hisense_USA I'd like to commend and thank HiSense USA for fixing our bricked TV!!! After explaining the issue to them, they contracted with and paid a local technician who resolved the issue by replacing the motherboard. Thank you for standing behind your products, @Hisense_USA ! 🙏 🙏🙏

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@Hisense_USA This TV might be great, but the firmware update your company urged us to download and install for our 2021 75” 4K Hisense TV BRICKED it; it doesn’t even turn on now because the download provided for our specific model was actually for a different model. Please DM me for details.

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

I'd like to commend and thank HiSense USA for fixing our bricked TV!!! After explaining the issue to them, they contracted with and paid a local technician who resolved the issue by replacing the motherboard. Thank you for standing behind your products, @Hisense_USA ! 🙏 🙏 🙏

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@Hisense_USA This TV might be great, but the firmware update your company urged us to download and install for our 2021 75” 4K Hisense TV BRICKED it; it doesn’t even turn on now because the download provided for our specific model was actually for a different model. Please DM me for details.

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@iamjasonlevin @jakeradercpa @AviSchiffmann While I understand and appreciate the intention of what Rabbit is trying to do, the distillation of visual GUIs into dynamic sequences of aural “speak/listen” interactions is inefficient and increases cognitive load for the human participant.

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@tcurdt @brad_frost @argyleink @tcurdt Correct me if I’m mistaken, but wasn’t part of the request for the red container’s height to scale vertically to fit the amount of content within itself? Doing a quick test, it would appear this doesn’t happen. (I probably AM mistaken, so please correct me if so.)

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@MicrosoftTeams If you'd like the recording from the first five-and-a-half minutes of our meeting — when we tried (and failed) to use this — I'm happy to provide it. I also have other #goodUX suggestions to help make the Teams UX better overall.

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@MicrosoftTeams Your new "live annotation" feature is great example of #badUX and feels like it was carelessly released: no UI affordance for saving, Teams' recording not capturing them, having to restart Teams (2x for me), and more. "Microsoft, do you even QC your stuff, brah?"

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

This UX pattern by @amazon during mobile checkout is incredibly annoying. Many times, I’ve accidentally tapped the “tap for fewer deliveries….” box below in the process of scrolling down, even though it doesn’t look like a button, checkbox or any other usual UI control. #badUX

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

I often open @ZipRecruiters's emails based on certain phrases in the notification—such as "@IBDinvestors may want to hire you"—but am disappointed when the email doesn't contain it. Looked at the source and found: (display:none; opacity:0). Deceptive tactic and overall #badUX.

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

I have seen my fair share of organizations mired in UX debt, oftentimes resulting from sprinting too fast without taking a periodic sprints to address it. Partner with your scrum master, keep your own backlog, and continually demonstrate how addressing UX…https://t.co/ZZBx9aCika

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

Great distinction between “design” and “design thinking.” https://t.co/HSbXxUoyqo

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

@Tazo I’m trying to get my water to 175 degrees Celsius (as indicated in this sachet envelope; look closely), but can’t quite seem to get there without melting my mug. Please advise ♨️

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

“Scenes” replace “Pages” and “Screens” when architecting UX for AR. “Mixed Reality User Flows: A New Kind of Template” — Lillian Warner https://t.co/2dtKZIAz6e

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

I'm a UX Designer that specializes in Information Architecture and Interaction Design, and I'm available in the Greater Los Angeles area. Seeking contract or full-time work.

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

Great read! "The cult of conversational design and why forms aren’t dead yet" https://t.co/7gWbR6rIY0

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

Perfect statement on Apple’s worsening UX: “The two-handed gestures are breathtaking in their non-discoverability.” https://t.co/8VQT77SrPX

[Grant Houston @ghoustonUX]

Great lesson in why #goodUX avoids repetitive and predictable micro-interaction patterns like these. https://t.co/1CuN1ARbWn

[Felix Krause @KrauseFx]

📝 One of these is Apple asking you for your password and the other one is a phishing popup that steals your password https://t.co/PdOJcthqL7