Conferences have a mixed reputation. I don’t get to many, but I really love it when I can. I’m at my second for the month now (at the IA Summit), and I think I have a strategy that works when it comes to getting real value from a conference. Here’s my six step strategy. Fly Solo. Going to conferences without colleagues or a whole pack…
links for 22 March 2007 – Design Patterns on Flickr
Chris Messina’s Design Patterns on Flickr what a great idea. I would say that I wish I’d thought of it, but thanks to Chris and Flickr I don’t have to! Wondering how others do ‘add friend’ – here’s the place to find out. (tags: designpatterns)
Design starts with Proposition (ergo Usability)
Here’s a typical story. A project is in its final phases when it gets to the part of the Gant chart that says ‘usability testing’, and so they do. People come in and are asked to perform tasks, and so they do, with greater or lesser degrees of difficulty. And yet, something else is wrong. It’s not so much that they *can’t* use your website, it’s just that they…
links for 19 March 2007 – Twittervision
Twittervision dead cool, if you’re into Twitter or interested in the minutiae of what people all over the world are doing. Be warned – it’s uber addictive. (tags: twitter maps visualisation)