Five Sketches™

For my blogging: looking for the formal name of the “ugly alternative” P.E.T.-design principle in the @kas #HFI webcast http://bit.ly/6cDt1 #
“An epidemic of overloaded text slides” in #ppt, says Dave Paradi in a podcast (http://bit.ly/jnczw) with sad & amusing examples. @wvmikep #
Semantic Web is slowly coming into focus for the wider world. Download the survey […]

For my blogging: looking for the formal name of the “ugly alternative” P.E.T.-design principle in the @kas #HFI webcast http://bit.ly/6cDt1 #
“An epidemic of overloaded text slides” in #ppt, says Dave Paradi in a podcast (http://bit.ly/jnczw) with sad & amusing examples. @wvmikep #
Semantic Web is slowly coming into focus for the wider world. Download the […]

Looking at Androida Free WordPress business theme. Cool. http://bit.ly/11hnt9 Do I have the courage to switch themes on FiveSketches.com…? #
Usability of swine-flu news: Fail, because current stats are within the norm. “In Canada, 4000 die each year from flu.” http://bit.ly/Uqdcz #
Usability as political philosophy. Imagine policies and laws that take common human responses/behaviours into account. […]

A presentation on seductive interaction that I’d like to see, live: http://ping.fm/JzHcT
In Vancouver? I’m presenting tonight at 7pm, on core competencies and ideation-design. Details at http://ping.fm/SVNGp
I want to try it: Easy Meet for mobile devices/phones lets users view & mark up each other’s PPT slides. http://ping.fm/3uyav
Cute & funny, but this “PC in biohazard suit” ad […]

The location of USB jacks affect my usability rating of a laptop computer. Must I rotate/flip it over each time, or can I truly plug & play? #
Spam is so crafty! I have “Nadine” commenting on my blog (http://FiveSketches.com) using a north-American idiom, but her domain’s in Russia. #
Someone recommended the PublicSpeaker site & podcasts […]

I’m presenting on repurposing the core competencies that relate to ideation and design, at the April 2009 Society for Technical Communication session, in Vancouver, Canada. The presentation is titled: Ideation and design with Jerome Ryckborst.
During this session, I’ll talk about how technical communicators have skill sets that make them valuable outside the “traditional” domain of […]

I have one item to add to this usability checklist (http://ping.fm/n2VQn): users don’t have to repeat any input. #
TG Daily on nettiquette: “within the […] Internet, just like in real life, there is this thing called personal space.” http://bit.ly/Sycha #
Product-design & localisation Fail: in Western Australia, I bought a yellow gel toilet-bowl cleaner. Once […]

Search the web, then refine the search by clicking additional terms in the tag cloud. Do I like it? :$ You try it: http://ping.fm/3lVjd #
Overheard outside the YVR airport lounge: “Four Newfies were in there and drank ALL the beer. They’re OK; there just isn’t any more beer.” #
Expert prediction: computers to discover remaining […]

Some of you won’t agree with me on whether usability studies are legitimate research. Comments? http://ping.fm/XRGDr #
We’re losing usability. Have you lost your half-typed work in Facebook, Wordpress, …? Office has autobackup. Why can’t browsers? #
Time to take my mom’s advice: “Nee heb je, ja kun je krijgen,” which means “If you don’t ask, the […]

Series 3 of the user-experience trading cards debuted at the 2009 IA Summit this week. Five Sketches™ is included in this set:

The trading cards are a growing set—each card lists one method or technique useful to our industry—and are provided as a perk wherever one of nForm’s speakers presents. The whole set is useful to:

help provide consistent terms.
illustrate the range […]