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 will be the place to find postings on this topic.
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-Daniel Montano
Daniel Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: Design · User Experience
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 experience professional.
I’m glad to find this. In an age focused on general innovation across disciplines and industries, philosophy should not be excluded from the discourse.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/
Related in this blog:
First legally blind governor may be good news for accessibility.
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: Philosophy · User Experience
Tagged: Accessibility, Usability
“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 – when you’re on your way out.”Innovation: Customer SURVEYS are Dead
I was reading FastCompany’s article above and I have to agree. Contextual research, in the vein of ethnographic research has been recognized as a higher quality method of gathering feedback. In my opinion, online and paper surveys are one step down the quality ladder of user / customer feedback.
So, it comes down to budgets and timelines. If the project has a small budget the online survey / paper survey may be the right option.
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: User Experience
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 community for all professionals involved in defining business systems, designing software applications and creating websites. If you are a business analyst, usability professional, UI designer, information architect, interaction designer, product manager, project manager or anyone else involved in the definition process of software applications, this community is for you and will be worth your time.”
Usability News – At last – our very own Social Network
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: Usability · User Experience
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 – 20, 2008 at the Baltimore MarriottWaterfront in Baltimore’s beautiful Inner Harbor district. The conferenceis celebrating the diversity of communities that contribute to theusability field. We encourage all to submit proposals, and thank those ofyou who have already done so.
To submit a proposal on line, please see the full Call for Participation>>
To learn more about the 2008 UPA International Conference >>
For questions about the 2008 UPA International Conference, please contact
Eva Gaumond at publicity2008@usabilityprofessionals.org
For more information about Usability Professionals’ Association please see: http://www.usabilityprofessionals
You may contact UPA at: office@usabilityprofessionals.orgWe look forward to hearing your ideas!Regards,UPA 2008 Conference Committee
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: Usability · User Experience
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 >>
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: User Experience
“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 memories, may then happen, but on a much slower time frame that can take several days or years.”
Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Neuroscience: How does short-term memory work in relation to long-term memory? Are short-term daily memories somehow transferred to long-term storage while we sleep?
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: 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.”
UX Magazine – Abundance and UX
Related:
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: Design · Design thinking · Innovation · User Experience
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 insurance for all of 2006.
One-third of U.S. lacked health insurance: survey | Health | Reuters
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: User Experience
MTV to launch activism social network (Reuters) >>
Related (Already existent social change sites)
Change.org >>
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 Strong Demand Social Innovation >>
The Long Tail of Social Networks >> (on idealist.org)
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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect
Categories: User Experience
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