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User experience

Is usability kaput?

by Bill on April 20, 2009

Whatever happened to Jakob Nielsen? Do you remember him? Do you remember when usability and user experience were the terms of the day and we were all bound and determined to make technology, particularly Internet related technology, user-friendly? Easy to use? Easy to understand? When was that? Late 1990′s? Early 2000′s? I’m not sure but [...]

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You can’t break wind online

by Bill on January 14, 2009

You can’t fart online. You can’t have strong body odour like you have after jogging or working out at the gym. Not online. Online, you can see pictures of my dog. Were I to make a video or an audio file, you might hear her bark. But you’ll never smell her dog scent or feel [...]

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Damn! The hoo-hah works!

by Bill on November 8, 2008

I was looking at Amazon’s newest notion, Windowshop.com, a new site for … well, window shopping online. I went there and did the usual rolling of the eyes. A lot of online flim-flam, multimedia falderal with little substance. I get annoyed online because so many companies, certainly their marketing departments, continue to think that pretty [...]

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Writers incognito

by Bill on May 17, 2004

There are writers among us but they are sometimes not easy to recognize. Writing, often viewed as a profession of the lower orders, traditionally pays rather poorly. In order to escape this ghetto-ish trap, a writer will often call him or her self by some other term. Currently, in my present position, I am a [...]

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