The old debate about the lack of women on the speakers rosters at conferences is doing the rounds again. Jeremy Keith has a good round up if you’ve managed to miss it.
For me, I’m going to think local for now. I’m going to put my hand up, I’m going to say yes when asked, I’m [...]

For my recent BarCamp session I shared a design technique that a colleague and I developed quite recently that we’ve found to be quite successful in both generating great design ideas and developing consensus about the design approach for projects within a multi-disciplinary team.
We call this technique Design Consequences, due to the similarity it has with the [...]

Continuing in the theme of hanging out with geeks* I spent a couple of days at the Future of Web Apps conference this week. It wasn’t as fun as BarCamp, but it was interesting.
Here’s some of the things that got my brain ticking (or that entertained me) throughout the two days. (Warning - it’s a [...]

When tags work and when they don’t: Amazon and LibraryThing (Thingology)
a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interested in making tagging work.
(tags: amazon folksonomy tagging socialSoftware)

Semantics in HTML Part II - standardizing vocabularies at microformatique - a blog about microformats and “data at the edges”
the next chapter [...]

How to use OpenID (a screencast)
If you don’t know about OpenID yet, now’s the time and here’s the place. I got myself an OpenID this week… now I just want more places to use it!
(tags: openid identity)

YouTube - We Are The Web
A Net Neutrality Message for Everyone: We Are the Web
(tags: netneutrality)

Del.icio.us Pecha Kucha presentation creator
now there is never an excuse not to have a presentation - Create a Pecha Kucha presentation from your last twenty del.icio.us bookmarks.
(tags: del.icio.us presentation mashup barcamp)

Computer-based exam discriminated against blind candidate | OUT-LAW.COM
A qualifications body discriminated against a blind systems manager when it failed to make its computer-based exam accessible [...]

When I finally had the opportunity to grab a ticket to BarCampLondon2 last Thursday - in the midst of a busy week at work and with weekend plans already in place, it was very tempting to just let this one go through to the keeper. It’s now Sunday evening and I’m pretty exhausted (although, I’d have nothing on everyone who camped on site overnight [...]

YouTube - Introducing the book
“compared to the scroll, these pages take longer to turn”… a very funny look at adapting to new technologies
(tags: humour usability design youtube learnability)

I’m off to London Barcamp2 tomorrow. Hurrah!

This is the third and final part of my chat with Bill Moggridge in which we talk about the ingredients of successful design teams - who is in them, how do they work together, where do they work, those kinds of questions.
This was a chat I recorded when I was talking with Bill about his [...]