Sabih Mir

User Experience Designer :: Boston office

I find it pretty weird to write about myself in the 3rd person, so I’m gonna change it up a bit and give you the facts about myself straight up.
Growing up I was interested in always fixing things, especially setting all the blinking LED clocks on VHS players for my family and our friends. Without fail, I’d be flabbergasted by how difficult and convoluted that process usually ended up being.
Fast forward a few years, through the rise of personal computers, cd-roms, modems, and the Internet and I found myself at Tufts University, trying to decide what to study. There was a multi-disciplinary program that tried to understand the psychology of engineering and design (Human Factors) and it intrigued me so much I decided I wanted to do it (but I still got my useless liberal arts major in there too, don’t worry).
I studied HF & English at Tufts, focused on Interaction and UI Design, got a job at Razorfish, got laid off with everyone else in the US (and the world?), “freelanced” for a bit, worked at NPR in Boston, worked at Tank Design, worked at RDVO as an Interaction Designer, and found my way here to TBG.
Now, I’m helping bring UX to the hordes.

On this day, BW3 began.

Google has just announced their entry into the web browser arena (and has created a handy comic about what went into making it): Google Chrome.
While my first inclination was to moan and fret about the start of BW3 (not the chicken wing joint, but the third browser war), reading through some of the features and reasoning behind the endeavor changed my mind…and I’m curious how these innovations (a new Javascript engine? a Javascript Virtual Machine? Tabs on the OUTSIDE?) are gonna change things.

Take that, snarky consumer!

So I guess an owner of Tiger Woods Golf by Electronic Arts wanted to show a bug that was in the released version of the game by uploading to YouTube….EA got wind of this and posted a response to it, getting Mr. Woods himself to participate.
Pretty great that EA took the time to do this kind of thing.

First week: 0 rapes, 0 pillages

So after diligently reading through The Barbarian Group Employee Manual™ I did what was asked and sent out an introductory email to all my new TBG colleagues. And immediately started a torrent of emails that discussed my newly acquired ACL, the NBA playoffs and the company etiquette of reply-all emails.
Nice way to start! :)
Seriously though, it’s been great so far. Everything’s pretty well organized (I say this now…), everyone’s super nice, and they even gave me a shiny new Macbook Pro to play with. Can’t complain!
Looking forward to start makings things awesome.