Archive for May, 2004

Problem Statements

Friday, May 21st, 2004

My close personal friend, Jeff Rubin (what up, Jeff!), wrote a book once. You may own it. Conveniently it is called, “Handbook of Usability Testing.”
In the book Jeff talks about usability objectives. There are two types and the first I will write an example to illustrate.

The user will accomplish task X, in [...]

I Miss Mountains

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

I grew up in Alaska. Now I live in Central Illinois, about 130 miles southwest of Chicago.
There are no mountains here. There is no water to speak of. I’ve been missing it enough lately, and have no hope of visiting soon, that I decided a site redesign was in order. My [...]

I am the middle

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

I am the middle one. I wish I were there right now. If I had a “I’d rather be kayaking” bumper-sticker, I’d wear it on my forehead.
That’s all.

Register.com is Pissing Me Off

Monday, May 17th, 2004

Register.com is pissing me off.
My domain name for this site is, officially, usabilityworks.org. But right now, usabilityworks.org goes to a Register.com parked page; a “coming soon!” stock page.
My domain registration was set to expire on May 13. On May 5, I set up a domain transfer to Godaddy.com. That should [...]

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