Use personas. If you recruit using personas that have been developed based on customer research then there can be no issue that you have brought in the right test participants, because you can use the attributes as screening criteria. Allow…
My Quora answers, Technology, UX Articles
What are the rationale behind some of the recent Facebook UI changes?
The same rationale that drives all tech companies to change their products: featureitis. If you are maintaining the status quo then you are not evolving and that lack of new features could cost you customers/eyeballs. The problem with featureitis is…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-26
OK, just watched newest #doctorwho I really hope that this season doesn't end with a "power of love" ending like this episode had… # Now, to make some honey bacon. # The short prequel to next week's #DoctorWho finale is…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-25
Jim Henson Gets An Interactive Google Doodle On What Would Have Been His 75th Birthday http://t.co/gDYubjuP # Just read that they sold 87 quisillion copies of the #starwars bluray set. Lucas has subsequently announced he's buying Poland. # Just say…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-24
So, there's free beer & wine at work on a Friday night… or I can go to a pub and spend money on beer & wine. Hmm. Decisions, decisions. # BANGKOK! Oriental setting! And the city don't know what the…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-23
‘Bond 23? Screenwriter John Logan Hints at Blofeld Appearance http://t.co/O6IXiCXB # What do we want? Many of us only want to know that we have been listened to. That our concerns have been noted. That someone cares. # I want…
Geek, The Prisoner, TV
Revisiting The Prisoner, wherein McGoohan changes his mind.
Episode 12, A Change of Mind Patrick McGoohan himself directed this one. Using a pseudonym, one that I really really like. “Joseph Serf.” Give you a couple of guesses why. This is the most Orwellian episode of the series, with…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-22
Haven't tweeted in almost 24 hours. Busy designing stuff. Sorry. # Disney is adding "Avatar-land" to the Animal Kingdom. Hey, Disney? Please also consider these two words: Star. Trek. http://t.co/lXmnqiX6 # My wife is the only person excited about Quickster.…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-21
Twenty-Five Years Later, Celebrate the Potent and Terrifying Dream of David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’ http://t.co/WGe8FRa7 # Finally watching latest #BreakingBad Wow. Next year's Emmys are in the bag. Best drama, best actor, best supporting actor. Book it, done. # A…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-20
Avoiding Twitter, due to work and not wanting to have the Emmys spoiled (will watch it when I get home). # Just finished zipping thru the (recorded) Emmys. Except for #madmen for best drama, no one I wanted to win…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-19
Watching the new #doctorwho # "What is he doing?" "He's saving us." #doctorwho # My #kubrick re-watch continues, with Full Metal Jacket. # An underrated classic. #fullmetaljacket #kubrick # Comparing the recently rewatched Star Wars films with #Kubrick .. well,…
Geek, The Prisoner, TV
Reflections on The Prisoner: “What’s it all about?”
Recently I’ve become quite reflective and introspective about many things, about who I am as a person, about what drives me. About who I am. I think I’m a good person. I care, sometimes too much. I speak too much…
Geek, Movies
Build your own James Bond Car!
I was at a newsstand here in Sydney last week and was surprised to find a really cool magazine, the first issue of a series that allowed you to build a super-detailed 1/8th scale model of the Aston Martin DB5…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-18
It is a perfect Spring day here. Just perfect. It's so nice I even abandoned watching the Star Wars blurays to go outside for a while. # The Shat says Star Trek is better than Star Wars. NERD FIGHT! http://t.co/dNiNzvn1…
Technology
Want to be found on the Internet? “Feed the beast.”
I love googling myself. I do it about once a month, entering my name in google to see how often I show up. I’m right near the top of the results, with a lot of results. Yes, I know that…
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Twitter Updates for 2011-09-17
Busy busy day. All meetings, stacked up like cordwood. Eventually I may design something, instead of talking about design. #UX # No Friday night drinks for yours truly, on my way home for some more #StarWars bluray goodness. #addict #…