Category Archives: Two cents

Added value to the customer

By admin | Published: 20/02/2010

Recently we were told that the UX team was going to be made redundant because we were losing money, weren’t part of the companies core business and had no added value to the companies portfolio OR TO OUR CLIENTS. I started thinking about how we could start being profitable as a team and how we [...]

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Crowd surfing. Wheeeeee!

By admin | Published: 14/07/2009

Everybody ’s doing it. It’s nothing to be ashamed about. Jared Spool at work in the middle of the night (it was daytime in Holland) and Scott Berkun (working on his new book), to name a few of the more famous I happened to catch tweets from. Dipping into our collective knowledge, their followers. We, [...]

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Web Apps

By admin | Published: 10/05/2009

In the Spoolcast “Better Navigation for Web Application” Jared Spool asked Hagan Rivers a couple of questions she didn’t get around to answering the attendees at the Web App summit. God I wish I had been there, but that’s beside the point.  One of the questions asked was: “How do you know what the user [...]

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Usability Testing Guerilla Techniques

By admin | Published: 28/09/2008

I’m really looking forward to a session of the User interface13 Conference October 13th in Cambridge by Dana Chisnell – Usability Testing Guerrilla Techniques: Collecting User Data on a Shoestring. I’ve been working on an interesting “e-government” project for a couple of months now as a user experience designer. Initially I was asked to make [...]

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Adam Greenfield: The city is here for you to use

By admin | Published: 06/07/2008

The two presentations during the CHI conference “The web and beyond -> Mobility” that were most inspiring to me were Adam Green’s keynote: “The city is here for you to use” and Jyri Engeström’s keynote “Nodal Points”. The reason for this may be that in a previous life I studied Human Geography during which time [...]

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