Bad Interfaces – eMusic Getting it Wrong

Jan
24
2012

Estimated reading time:  2.3 mins.

Pirate Flag!

Times have just got to change. I’m a little sick of living in a world that is regionalise into sales and licencing zones for no real reason besides to restrict sales due to some arcane money grubbing corporate policy.

What makes matters worse is people building experiences that highlight this and rub our face in it time and time again!

I regularly buy music online from various places, I tend to favour non DRM music, or if I can buy directly from the artist which is even better – I don’t like iTunes much at all.

Debunking the Myth on Agile T Shaped UX Designers

Dec
21
2011

Estimated reading time:  2.5 mins.

UI Design and Sketching

I have been interested in agile process for a while, especial it’s use with UX techniques.

The other day I ran into a myth that there aren’t many User Experience Design people with skills that can work on agile teams.

It seems UX people aren’t very flexible.

This I find almost laughable, in fact most UX professionals I have found are extremely flexible, often changing tack or techniques as required, at a moments notice.  Maybe we are too flexible.

The core of any agile process really is to have a role less team that can specialists with generalised skills.

Australia forgets about Accessibility?

Dec
20
2011

Estimated reading time:  18.4 mins.

Melbourne 2011 - No Road Sign

The following is an approximate transcript of the talk – “Outta time, scope, and we fixed that already – Is there a Disconnect” I gave at the 2011 OzeWAI conference in late November 2011. As usual the slide deck is on Slideshare.

I also have a collection of sketch notes from OzeWAI 2011, as I find it easier to sketch the talk than take notes.

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I have been involved with the Australian Web Awards for three years now.  Over those three years I have noticed an alarming trend in the results.   An almost disconnect from the Australian Web Industry in terms of accessibility.

Taking Stock of Volunteer Contributions

Oct
18
2011

Estimated reading time:  2.9 mins.

Edge of the Web 2011

The other day I added up the time I spend on volunteer work, you know, contributing back to the community and the like.

I used to see this as just an hour here, and hour there, no big deal.  I just consider it to be part of what I do.

However when I added it all up and came up with a yearly average. It was a bit of a shock.

The amount of time I spend volunteering is a little over an hour for every workday.   It’s around 240 hours annually.