The User Experience Playlist
13 March 2015 - Chris Rourke
We are creating a Playlist of UXcellent tunes that are about the wonderful world of User Experience.
OK sometimes the link to UX through the title or lyrics is a bit tenuous, but we’re pretty sure that the songwriter must have been thinking about UX /usability/user research when they wrote these songs.
We have a few UX-related toe tappers ranging from Julie Andrews to Ed Sheeran, which we will add to the list in the coming months. However, in the meantime if you have any ideas of songs that are somehow related to UX (our interpretation is very loose) we’d love to hear your suggestions for the UX Playlist.
Contact us by email or tweet us @uservision(this will open in a new window)using #UVUXPlaylist and we’ll factor this into our monthly song release.
We’ve also created a User Vision UX Playlist (this will open in a new window)on Spotify to make it easy to hear the songs as they are added.
So lets get started with this month’s tune:
UX song of the month – March 2015
“(this will open in a new window)Ergonomics” by Kajagoogoo
Long before digital User Experience design as we know it, there was Ergonomics and the need to design for our human shapes, sizes, capabilities and limitations.
We think it’s great that Leighton Buzzard’s finest 80’s semi-sensations Kajagoogoo, were not too shy (too shy) to declare their admiration for Ergonomics through a musical homage.
In Ergonomics they comment on the “neatest fitting comfy handles” and, as their chorus reminds us: “All across the land, it’s made for the hand”.
Pop gold and truly words to live by.
Kajagoogoo(this will open in a new window), still occasionally play at 80’s reunion gigs, so learn the lyrics, get out there and join in the fun!
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