My new blog on user experience

I started a new blog on another blog hosting system. At the moment I am just trying it out to find out how I like it. So far I am not impressed with GoDaddy.com’s blogging tools – so, the experimentation may end up soon. But until I decide on another format this new UX blog […]

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The Philosophy of Disability

Humbolt State University in California publishes a bi-annual journal on philosophy. Their January 2008, issue is focussed on the philosophy of disability. This was a most unexpected find for me. I have been reading philosophy lately but I never expected it to lead me back to a topic I deal with everyday as an user […]

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Customer Surveys are Dead

“Tell the truth, do you look forward to filling out and responding to surveys? They are one of the most invasive forms of one-way communication. From the exit interview to the “how did we do?” after your car has been serviced, surveys seem to be the only time a company explicitly requests your opinion – […]

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The Long Tail of Social Networks (for geeks)

This is one sign that the long-tail of social networking has arrived. When you start segmenting your geeks that’s when you know you that tail is getting long. “Catalyze, a new networking community for user experience professionals, has been launched by the UPA in association with the International Institute of Business Analysts.Catalyze is a member-driven […]

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UPA Call for Papers

JUST FOUR DAYS LEFT – to submit your proposals for the 2008 UsabilityProfessionals’ Association International Conference, “The Many Faces ofUser Experience: Usability through Holistic Practice”, so we need to hearfrom you soon! Submissions for presentations, panels, papers, tutorials,and workshops are all due this Monday, October 15, 2007 . UPA 2008 will be held June 16 […]

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Which Side of Your Brain Are You Using Right Now?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa… Found this at: The Right Brain vs Left Brain « Xntric pundits Original post at: The Daily Telegraph >> Related in this blog: The Paradox of Space >> Nonduality >> ………………….. -Daniel Montano ………………….. Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, […]

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Neuroscience: How does short-term memory work in relation to long-term memory?

“Memory consolidation can occur at many organizational levels in the brain. Cellular and molecular changes typically take place within the first minutes or hours of learning and result in structural and functional changes to neurons (nerve cells) or sets of neurons. Systems-level consolidation, involving the reorganization of brain networks that handle the processing of individual […]

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Using the Abundance Frame for User Experience

“I spent some time this weekend listening and thinking about Chris Anderson’s talk from PopTech! . Chris is looking to move beyond the Long Tail and is focusing on the notion of what happens when you look at the world through a lens of abundance rather than the classic Adam Smith economic model of scarcity.” […]

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One-third of U.S. lacked health insurance

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than one-third of the U.S. population under the age of 65 went without health insurance for all or part of the last two years, a consumer group said on Thursday.The nonprofit Families USA group used data from last month’s U.S. Census Bureau report that found 47 million Americans went without health […]

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MTV to launch activism social network

MTV to launch activism social network (Reuters) >> Related (Already existent social change sites) Change.org >> Changemakers.net >> Idealist.org >> Relevant Blog Postings (in this blog) Book: Massive Change >> (my blog posting here) Beyond Maslow’s Hierarchy of Individual Needs >> Emerging Social Innovation Networks >> The Cycle of Social Innovation >> Millenials: 78 Million […]

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