Neo-futurists video [failed uxweek notes]
Somehow I can’t make a really good notes from Neo-futurists presentation, so here’s one of the short videos from them, which is still really enjoyable:
Jensen Harris – The Story of the Ribbon (Office 2007) [uxweek08 notes]
Image via Wikipedia  Jensen Harris lives at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/  The story of the Office  Conventional wisdom said that the Office is good enough. Asking real people told different story, which was that the user interface was failing users.  Symptoms they noticed: They added new features, but hardly anyone found them Office was […]
Being a UX Team of One – Leah Buley [uxweek08 notes]
Image by MaggieMason via Flickr Leah Buley lives at http://ugleah.tumblr.com/ Who is team of one? Often people assume it’s someone in a small organizations, or just starting their careers. But she’s actually thinking of a state of mind, rather than the situation. Working with interesting constraints, that created opportunities and makes our work [of UX […]
3 easy ways to do online interviews
Image by hz536n via Flickr Gathering qualitative data, like interviews, presents an interesting alternative to classical online surveys. While in survey gathering we can setup an online environment, and leave it running for longer time without our strict supervision, in interview setting a real-time component is really important (unless you want to do a bit […]
How was life without Twitter
Image by ( Krikit ) via Flickr About a week ago I suddenly stopped using Twitter. I remove the Twitterberry app from my Blackberry, and disabled the web version. So there was no more Twitter. During this time I continued with my normal life and started gathering notes on differences. Three biggest observations: I should […]
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3 easy ways to do online surveys
Online surveys are one of the basic ways in which you can gather different types of quantiative data. They’re often easy to setup and mail to people with request to answer the questions, and since they’re done in online fashion its pretty easy to analyze since you don’t have to enter the questions into computer. The interpretation […]
Cuil – where’s the social media in the launch?
Image by nattu via Flickr It’s now more than a day since Cuil, the latest hyped Google killer launched, and we can reflect on looking at how that went. According to TechCrunch and a number of other sources, it didn’t go too well, with their servers crashing a number of times. I’ve seen this also […]
Pizza in a cone – What Slovenians eat
Slovenia and especially Ljubljana is very famous for it’s upgrade of Burek, called Pizza Burek. But this doesn’t seem to stop innovative locals to start selling something called Pizza in a cone (sl. Pizza kornet). It’s essentially your ice-cream cone, stuffed with cheese and ham in layers and then heated for 8 minutes. Since it […]
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The Facebook and Jaiku “fail whale”
For a while now (a few days at least), we haven’t seen a lot of famous Twitter fail whale, that appears when their servers are failing. Happily enough, other services like Facebook and Jaiku are starting to fail. Jaiku has a really nice graphic: Â While on the other hand, Facebook takes the whole event […]
Visualizing books using Zemanta and Wordle
Most of my readers are by now probably already aware of Wordle, Java applet, that allows neat visualization tags. Given that Zemanta released early alpha API preview recently, I was looking for a fun project to showcase some of it. So for this experiment I’m going to try to visualize some of the popular classic […]