Expert Usability Review vs. Usability Testing
Lisa Halabi has a very good article at usabilitynews.com on the common question of whether or not to implement usability guidelines (aka an expert usability review) in place of conducting usability...
View ArticleClay Shirky on the dark side of “Audience”
Over the weekend, On The Media had an interesting interview with Clay Shirky where he talked about the potential dark side of unmediated communication for his new book: Here Comes Everybody He’s saying...
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Audience personas for the Macquarie University Library website
Very good persona analysis [pdf] coming out of Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. The thing I like best, aside from the nice personas they’ve developed, is the way they’ve mapped them against...
View ArticleClay Shirky Web 2.0 speech – updated
A quick bookmark post on Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 speech from last week. It’s a great read in its entirety. Here are my favorite sections: So I tell [a television producer] all this stuff, and I think,...
View ArticleIs self-published fiction becoming fail-safe?
… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago: The transcript can be found...
View ArticleNetworked Thinking
Extremely rewarding slide presentation by a Google UX researcher. The Real Life Social Network v2 View more documents from Paul Adams. Main takeaways for me: “Make no mistake about this. Everyone in...
View ArticlePresentation on Networked Learning & Sympathetic Library Spaces
Below is a presentation I gave last week at ACRL’s IdeaPower Unconference in Philadelphia. Great format as it allows some fairly “edge” ideas (read “unproven”) out in the open. The presentation...
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