Five Sketches™

If you missed the UPA 2009 conference, here’s a compilation of my micro-blogging: http://bit.ly/15muMY #
When it comes to sharing my PC desktop, I’m liking free #Mikogo for its features. Macworld UK likes the Mac version: http://bit.ly/LePdS #
Attempting to model the transitions in a wireframe by using Axure’s dynamic-panels feature. #

This week, my tweets will focus on the UPA conference, and my research into usability research. After that, normal broadcasting resumes. #
Made it to Portland for #upa2009. Had a nice dinner with a school friend from years ago. #
Users wiling to struggle with an unusable intranet if the info is useful. Kath Straub at #upa2009 […]

Recently, one of the new-media gurus characterised Twitter as a place where people whine about the annoying or unexpected things that happen to them, in microblogs of 140 characters or less. Here are some examples:

davidcrow tweeted ”You can’t blame a guy for trying.” Ugh, you wasted 90 minutes of my day dude, and for trying to […]

Cookie usability. Cookies have affordance: the edge fits in toddler’s mouth for biting. The flat side only affords licking. #
Canadian airports with free wireless: Vancouver, Fredericton, Edmonton. Yay! Any others? #
You’re a usability nerd if your answer to “Why is cutlery always in the top drawer?” includes the words “taxonomy” and “statistically”. #
“We should not […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]