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UI10 - Web Site Usability 2005 - Part le Deux

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Joshua Porter is talking now (after lunch part of the talk). Talking about housingmaps.com.
He just asked the audience what Web 2.0 means to them. One person answered: “creating mashups of small apps for a greater user experience.” And we’re off!
He’s showing off del.icio.us, and google maps… etc. Kinda a snooze fest, [...]

UI10 - Web Site Usability 2005

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Jared Spool (LL Spool J) and Joshua Porter will be talking soon. Jared first, then Joshua after lunch.
UIE is essentially a Think Tank says Jared. I used to be a think tank. Today we will be talking about Effective Dissemination.
ARRRRGH! He said Web 2.0!
Talking now about amtrak.com problems. [...]

UI10 - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi*, author of Finding Flow is speaking now. Jared said his book is essential in the world of design and usability. Okay.
Book Description
Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flow is a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives. Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, Finding [...]

UI10 - Task-Based Information Architecture Design

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Gerry McGovern will soon be talking to us for the next 8 hours.
Top 5 (will explain later)

Simplicity
Design for community
Migrate to web standards like CSS
Less is more approach
Simpler applications

Now doing around the room with 150 people. Oy Vey. Speaking of Oy Vey, Happy New Year if you are Jewish. And even if you [...]