Chris Hass

SVP Experience Design

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Biography

Chris finds everything interesting and nothing impossible, which works out great for clients and badly for his free time.

Headline of the year 2075: Cancer Toll from xBox Kinect 2.0 IR Sensor Continues to Rise #xboxreveal

Anita's Leaves: A UX Adventure in China
Chris Hass - February 20th 2013
Anita sits on the ground in Beijing. The late afternoon sunlight in Diaoyutai Ginko Avenue park makes the trees around her ... read more

Crossing the Desserts: An Augmented Reality
Chris Hass - December 5th 2012
Just a little ways into the future Cassie buys a pair of Google Glasses. At first they feel slightly imbalanced, as ... read more

The Newest Emperor: How Blindness to UX Crowned Nokia’s Surrender
Chris Hass - March 28th 2011
Imagine the release of new and updated products as a parade. We gather around the marketplace watching companies advertise their latest output- ... read more

Consumer Decisions in a Social World
In a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review that focused on branding, David Edelman articulates how consumers’ engagement with brands is evolving with the proliferation of social media and other digital channels.
The Legend of Miyamoto: How Nintendo Shaped UX
Perhaps the greatest innovation Miyamoto brought to the gaming industry—and by extension, the web—was the popularization of a narrative structure. This may seem pretty silly to think about now—not unlike thinking that the mouse or GUI wasn’t a big deal—but it was pretty revolutionary for its time.
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