I’ve been developing software for over ten years now. In those ten years software technology has grown by enormous leaps and bounds. User experience however has not. I’d argue that user experience has hardly improved at all, and I grow more and more frustrated at the wasted potential as indicated by these tweets from yesterday:
Ok, ok, I love technology too, but mostly for it's potential. I haven't seen it live up to that yet.
If I had to do it over, I'd be a loud and vocal critic of bad user experience. To that end, I registered uxfail.org.
At the end of the day, most software *is* nothing more than user experience.
I bought the domain name UXFail.org and set up BlogEngine.NET to rant, vent, and hopefully help people improve the user experience of their software solutions. Visit the site, read the posts, and feel free to submit your own fails from the battlefield.