Archive for July 2008

31 Jul 2008 0822H

Personas for shopping malls?

Why yes. In what is being scored as a landmark event by the NYT (rather late post) at the beginning of July, real estate developers have consulted their targeted users in planning commercial real estate:
Terry Montesi, the company’s chief executive, first hired two female retail consultants: Claudia A. Sagan and J’Amy Owens. But Trademark also [...]

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30 Jul 2008 0641H

Brulant + Rosetta: crazy delicious?

Well, not quite. Since the dotcom days, I have always been somewhat suspicious of firms that have grown by merger and acquisition. In those days, rolling up firms for their assets and clients seemed to be the predominant exit strategy, and all the equity built up by the talent within went for naught as they [...]

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16 Jul 2008 0814H

Design Can Change; Interaction Design Supporting Sustainability

Maybe you all have seen this site, Design Can Change, from SmashLab in Vancouver, but I just tripped over it the other day. It’s a good read, and I think we’re all looking at ways to make changes as we can in the work we do.
A new society will require all kinds of people, [...]

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15 Jul 2008 1049H

Randy Pausch lecture

This is a fantastic talk, the condition of the lecturer notwithstanding, which incidentally has really great relevance for user experience:

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08 Jul 2008 0735H

Using old sites for benchmarking

In attending a UIE webinar two weeks ago I think it was (on designing to accommodate information foraging), it became apparent to all of us in the room that the site examples were about 10 years old, dotcom era relics already relegated to the historical dustbin of the Internet Archive. Was the information relevant? Of [...]

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