Following my 1st meet-up on the 6th August, I wanted to share a few thoughts on the group and its current exposure in the north-west. From what I understand, what the Northern User Experience group is currently a monthly get together attended by a very small group of people passionate about usability, user centered design […]
Continue Reading →Meeting 6 August
Thanks to everyone who came along to Sage yesterday, and nice to meet some new people too. Apologies for the misleading 8pm start time posted in a couple of places…. I really enjoyed the discussion on measuring user behaviours and metrics for usability: it was great to have some input from people (particuarly Steve & […]
Continue Reading →Terminology and Jargon
I’m currently studying an OU course in UI Design and Evaluation. Over on the course message board we’ve been having an interesting discussion about the terminology / jargon that the course materials use – in particular the concepts of task scenario, concrete use case, use scenario and essential use case: a task scenario is related […]
Continue Reading →New site for promoting the events?
Following some research with my colleague who found our site, he suggested EventBrite as another place we could list our events. It’s free to list free events, so looks like it might be another opportunity for us to be found. http://www.eventbrite.com/home
Continue Reading →Critical Friend
We talked a little in Wednesday’s (July 2nd) meeting about the lack of recognised qualifications to audit or certify a web site as “accessible”. I recalled a customer of my company had asked about the use of a “trusted friend”. Alas, my recollection was faulty and the phrase they had used was “critical friend”. It […]
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