February 2012
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When to use (and not to use) drop downs →
November 2011
7 posts
Tracking shoppers' buying habits →
Another social network?
Microsoft decides to get in on the social networking game by revealing photos of the promised site, dubbed “Socl”.
Read more about Socl
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User-centered design at IBM →
User-centered design is about creating a product based on user characteristics and around what they want and need to do.
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Happy World Usability Day!
See how people around the world are celebrating World Usability Day.
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IBM Targets the Future of Social Media Analytics
“IBM announced a new product dedicated to helping customers perform sentiment analysis of social media data on Thursday, as well as a new program with the Yale School of Management’s Center for Customer Insight to train students in advanced data analysis skills.”
From Gigaom.com
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Don't Give Your Users Shit Work →
Zach Holman explains why designers shouldn’t give users “shit work”.
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Google and its many options
Why does Google have both Google Profiles and Google Plus? Google Profiles looks like a standalone profile without the ability to network with your friends. But why create a Google Profile when there’s Google Plus, which has a similar looking profile with the added benefit of being connected to your friends?
October 2011
6 posts
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40 Helpful Resources On User Interface Design... →
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Usability Professionals Association 2012... →
Usability Professionals Association (UPA) is calling for submissions for the 2012 Conference on Leadership. They’re looking for submissions for 60-minute presentations, workshops, panels, peer-reviewed papers, posters, among many other submission types. This is a good opportunity for those of you who have completed a thesis or large project for school. The deadline is October 24, 2011.
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Chinese group could buy Yahoo
A Chinese group called Alibaba is eying Yahoo and if Yahoo falls into their hands, this could mean privacy and security concerns for users. Alibaba denied any claims that they would share Yahoo user data would be subject to review by Chinese authorities.
Welcome
Welcome to my new blog! I’ve attempted to maintain a website over the past 9 years and have learned that I dislike maintaining websites…I just want it to work. I’ve used Wordpress on my own website and have even created my own themes. All of that was fun, but also very time consuming. Once I got everything set up and running, I had lost all will to actually continue using it....