Usability Counts is a blog run by Patrick Neeman, a User Experience  Consultant based out of Southern California. You have probably used a website he has helped design or architect — a claim few Information Architects can make, and some of the companies he’s has worked with include MySpace, Realtor.com, Move.com, Orbitz, NewsCorp, Paramount, Stamps.com, Escrow.com, Comcast, Disney, Amgen, Paul Mitchell, Numonyx, Cadence, Wasserman Media Group, eBay and BidRx. Somewhere in there, he was a published writer in print (print!), a published photographer that was appeared on autobytel.com and espn.com, and somehow finds time to be an elite Yelper (he outsources his writing to the Phillipines) and meander down to House of Hayden in Long Beach, California.

His’  greatest claim to fame: the first site he designed professionally was the Oliver North Home Page.

His’ second greatest claim to fame: he built and managed the User Experience practice at speakTECH to a team of 25 of designers, information architects and rich media developers. You try doing that in a year.

Patrick has done has his time for the last thirteen years in user experience, product management and marketing hell. Before the World Wide Web, he was a magazine art director for what is now Primedia Publishing, Inc., and that was the last time he had a sense of humor.

People that are clueless how full of it we are (or, I love lists):

• Alltop – Social Media, User Interface
• Six Revisions — 20 Websites That Help You Master User Interface Design
• UX Booth — 11 User Experience Designers You Should Follow
• Pushing Pixels — 20 Design Blogs for UI Developers

You can contact him at pat@usabilitycounts.com.