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Dioramas — XR personas

Meet Ellen

7 min readApr 14, 2022

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elderly woman with glasses

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Peter Simon
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UX Collective

A glossary of UX design terms applied to Virtual Reality (VR)

“Gentlemen, this is a football”

5 min readNov 8, 2021

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diagram — menu panel on the lens of a pair of glasses

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UX thinking for hand gestures in XR experiences

Timothy Leary, John Anderton, and Tony Stark.

12 min readOct 20, 2021

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Man wearing a virtual reality head-mounted display gesturing with his hands

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Peter Simon

The Magic that is GenCon

I’m in the lobby of the Omni Severin hotel in Indianapolis as I type this, MacBook across my lap. It’s 4pm and I don’t yet have a Bullet…

5 min readAug 5, 2018

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Peter Simon

understanding value to the user — a parable with ketchup

Let’s say you’re in a fast food place that offers ketchup, in packets.

4 min readJul 21, 2018

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understanding value to the user — a parable with ketchup

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Peter Simon

Pete’s 17 Somewhat Snarky Points of Etiquette for Public Laptopping in a Coffee Shop. Or Wherever.

You have a laptop and go to the coffee shop; this makes you a laptopper.

11 min readJul 21, 2018

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Peter Simon

The UX Architect Interview

answers you’ll want to know, questions you’ll want to ask

17 min readJan 31, 2017

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Peter Simon

Everything I need to know about doing UX, I (re)learned by spinning at Turntable.fm

If you’ll remember, Turntable.fm was a sweet little online experience that combined music and being social.

3 min readJan 31, 2017

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Everything I need to know about doing UX, I (re)learned by spinning at Turntable.fm

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Peter Simon

12 of the Top 10 things I learned in my year with Sears Social Shopping

I first wrote and published this story in July, 2011 on the Sears Holdings User Experience Blog. Maybe 14 months before this, when Chairman…

7 min readJan 31, 2017

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Peter Simon

Italy snapshot — a neighborhood market in Florence

I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. We drove everywhere, especially to the store. When we shopped for food we bought in bulk. We also ate…

7 min readJan 31, 2017

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Italy snapshot — a neighborhood market in Florence

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Peter Simon

Peter Simon

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Principal UX guy & onebag digital nomad who loves dense problems, dogs, fine scotch, and algebraic semiotics.

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