Johnnie Moore’s Weblog: Waterfalls and chaos
Many meetings fail because we try to follow the linear agenda and stop people from “wandering off the point”. The trouble is, most of us need to wander off the point to follow our natural manner of figuring stuff out.

(tags: projectmanagement methodology washingmachine waterfall process planning)

Touchstone Tools and Resources
Given that [...]

New Profession Unfolding In Beauty and Geekery :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net
Design shops are missing the quant geeks and engineering shops are missing the visualization geeks that bring this digital world rich in opportunity into something that makes sense and beauty.
(tags: design aggregation visualisation socialnetworks)

sarahcpr » Blog Archive » When Worlds Collide
if you put each of your profiles side by side and compared them, you might be amused with your multi-faceted personality. But if, all of a sudden, your Mom wandered onto MySpace …you might also fear for the death of Independent… Whoever You Are.
(tags: facebook identity privacy socialnetworks)

Product [...]

Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-Centered Design - International Journal of Usability Studies
These new Agile UCD methods produce better-designed products than the “waterfall” versions of the same techniques. They have allowed us to narrow the gap between uncovering usability issues and acting by incorporating changes into the product.
(tags: agiledesign waterfall washingmachine ucd methodology)

Effective Project Management [...]

Around this time last year I was holidaying in Thailand, which was blissful. The downside, however, is that I was offline when the dConstruct tickets went on sale and just hours later - they were all gone
I’ve never been to a dConstruct conference before, but I’d heard such great things, I was [...]

As have many others in the past year or so, I recently swapped from PC to a new MacBook.
It certainly has been an experience, and it’s nice to actually have something to take out of my bag at conferences that looks so cute, that doesn’t make that embarrassing Window’s startup sound, that has a half [...]

TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation
(tags: photography photosynth collaboration, socialnetworks)

Folksonomy Provides 70 Percent More Terms Than Taxonomy :: Off [...]

So, something that I’ve always been quite fascinated with, is the way that people ‘perform’ themselves in virtual space… consciously or not. It all started by reading some Sherry Turkle while I was at university and has simmered away ever since.
In the ‘olden days’ of social technologies, creating your ’self’ online involved a fair amount [...]

Gamestudies - Game analysis: Developing a methodological toolkit for the qualitative study of games
This paper creates a template for such analyses qualitative, critical analysis of games as “texts” by developing and explaining four areas that game researchers should consider when studying a game
(tags: evaluation games research)

Vex Appeal: Cut it out
I find people leaving groups and [...]

Before I file away (or accidentally lose) my Reboot notebook I thought I’d transcribe a few of the handwritten notes I took whilst listening to some of the presentations I attended. Some of them are my paraphrasing… I’ll put quote marks around those that I’m fairly confident are verbatim quotes.
(Note that the number of notes [...]