Archive for February, 2004

Winter Poem

Sunday, February 22nd, 2004

I found this poem whilst rummaging through an old Zip disk and I think it was written in 1995. Just thought it was an interesting find and I offer it up here.
Winter Poem
I had walked in on the conversation;
or was it a speech?
She was saying, “…and if that’s the armpit, then Anchorage
is the butthole. [...]

Alaska Bound

Sunday, February 22nd, 2004

I know, I know… The title (and point) of this blog is Alaska Unbound. But, as my parents still live up there and they haven’t seen my 3-year-old daughter in two years, I think it is time for a visit. Well, not right now, but in the summer. Probably June or [...]

New SURL Research Newsletter

Thursday, February 19th, 2004

The new newsletter from our close, personal friends at SURL just came out. It should provide some interesting reading, though the one that springs (no pun intended) to mind that has the most interest to me (because the others don’t, and isn’t that all that is important?;) is the study on the use of [...]

Adaptive Task Analysis

Tuesday, February 17th, 2004

There’s an interesting article by Indi Young over at Adaptive Path: Six Steps to Better Interviews and Simplified Task Analysis.
I wrote about this topic a few months ago, but it is where we designers do (or should do) our most important work. Overall she makes good points. One in particular is:
My last [...]

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