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.
I’m sitting here in a hotel, in Wellington, the day before some of the workshops start for Webstock. Which is a conference I have been iching to get to for some time.
Now conferences can be a fantastic events, they can be very stimulating mentallly and socially. You can gain a great deal of insight, new ideas and even an increased depth of professional understanding.
They can also be a complete waste of time. Which one they are is totally up to you. The organisers, can make the conference the best in the world, but the value aspect all comes down to the individual – you.
Now that, WA Web Week is well and truely put to bed, with Edge of the Web, WebJam9 and the WA Web Awards done and dusted; it’s now time to inject some life back into this blog. Yes the posts have been a bit scant of late. Sorry about that, the real world has been getting in the way.
So you have a site that you have lovingly designed coded and integrated into your CMS of choice. You’ve delivered it to the client, perfect. Not a pixel, word or image out of place, following industry best practice. A work of art, electro-prefecto.
Gary Barber
I’m an independent User Experience Consultant.
I design interfaces, build information architectures, prototypes, do UX research and conducting usability & accessibility tests and audits.
I can work within your existing team or as an external consultant on a contract or adhoc basis.
You can contact me via my company, radharc.
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