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This weekend I went to BarCamp and it was great. Always good to catch up with fellow campers and hear what’s on their minds.

What was on my mind this weekend was DIY User Research - you can see my slides above. This took me a little out of [...]

I’m really interested to hear what guerrilla style techniques you’re using to do User Research when there’s not a lot of budget or if you don’t have the traditional research facilities or infrastructure?
I imagine there’s some pretty interesting stuff going on out there, what with all the new and often free web based tools that [...]

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 [...]

in the last few days, Microsoft Office has been playing up on me. I go to load Windows, and it just doesn’t. I don’t know what’s wrong and I’ve tried all the technical tricks I know to get it working (which is a pretty limited bag of tricks I have to admit). So, I’ve decided [...]

Does your gmail inbox look like this one? Mine does.
Does having a never-ending, never-empty inbox stress you out? Yeah, me too.
Did you know *you* can have a beautifully clean, empty gmail inbox with all your emails beautifully filed away, out of sight where they’re not going to make you feel anxious? No, me either.
In fact, [...]

The more I use Google Calendar, the more I love it.
Yesteday I realised that I could pretty much use it to replace Microsoft Project (if only I could create dependencies between items and spit out a gant chart…. perhaps I’ll just have to train clients to not like gant charts quite so much. What’s with [...]

Call me crazy, but I feel as though I’ve just uncovered the holy grail of Visio.
I don’t know how many people I’ve asked about ways that you can create a Table of Contents in Visio. It seems like it should be sooooo easy, but no one has ever been able to help me out.
So I [...]

What a great way to wrap up a four day week (is it just me, or do the short weeks sometimes feel the longest!). Out of nowhere, say hello to Google Calendar.
Even better, it’s a pleasure to use. It does everything I want it to. It’s integrated with Gmail.
I’m in love. And, I hope to [...]

I love pixoh because when I got my new laptop I lost my installation of Photoshop and I wanted something else that I could use… but cheaper
I love pixoh because I was far from a power user of Photoshop anyway. 95% of the time I just used it to optimise images for the web. Guess [...]

its 6.10pm and I just hit ’save’ on Visio after a long and productive day.
I’m *sure* I hit save earlier in the day. And, anyway, isn’t there supposed to be autosave and document recovery?
 (you know where i’m heading here, don’t you)
so, as soon as I hit ’save’, Visio informs me that its had an error [...]