http://usabilityworks.org Making next year's Human-Computer family reunion a lot less uncomfortable. Wed, 21 May 2008 02:54:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I decided rather abruptly to leave off any sites which were “social” in nature for a week to see how I got along. I did this last Tuesday. Why that day? Because all good things start on Tuesdays. I reorg'd my bookmarks and put all of my regular ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/04/07/my-week-without-social-media/ Yesterday was the official start of SXSW. I registered and it was surprisingly easy and smooth. So much less chaotic than years past. I got my badge and my bag. I realise that the contents of the bag are part of what pays for SXSW, but what a load of ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/03/08/sxsw-2008-day-the-seconde/ I arrived in Austin, TX yesterday, a day before SXSW officially starts. I like arriving early. Got to have a nice lunch with friends I haven't seen in a while and dinner was a lot of fun too. Even if 23 people showed up for a 12 ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/03/07/sxsw-2008-day-the-firste/ Last night as I was going to bed I had an idea. Knowing me, I had to write it down before I went to sleep lest I forget and since my computer was still on, I twittered it. To whit, I said, "thinking of doing an unpanel at SXSW. ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/03/03/sxsw-2008-you-unpanel-awaits/ In two weeks I'll be flying to Austin, Texas for SXSWi and I am this [        ] much excited. I wasn't able to go last year and found it to be unfortunately painful that I couldn't be there. It's the place where I see most of my friends in person so ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/02/20/sxsw-2008-is-it-march-yet/ The standard definition of usability is "The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use." That definition works on my computer! ... </tumbleweed> There's a lot of opportunity in that definition ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/02/11/translating-usability-to-dev-speak/ In this episode I looked at mbta.com and fanfiction.net. Unfortunately, the problem I was having with mbta.com earlier in the day was not happening when I went to do the show. Curse them for working properly! :) Fanfiction.net was submitted by a viewer and we talked about ways to ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/02/07/matto-show-ep-3-mbtacom-fanfictionnet/ Plug: I'll be doing my show tomorrow night at 8pm ET. Live reviews of web sites and apps that you choose. Come see the show and participate too. It's more fun that way. Whitney Hess wrote a post today comparing Bloglines Beta and Google Reader. I thought ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/02/05/bloglines-beta-vs-google-reader-beta/ The power just came back on here. It was out for under 10 minutes and looked like it took out most of my ZIP Code as everything south of us was dark, but on the north side of Route 9 the lights were still shining. The only thing that was ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/02/02/how-much-do-i-really-need-the-web/ I didn't do much to advertise this week's show as I've been sick (as you can plainly tell by watching the show). So no one showed up, but that's okay. I had always planned for that possibility. As such, I took a look at a problem on ... http://usabilityworks.org/2008/01/31/matto-show-ep-2-legocom/