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Northern User Experience July 2010
Last night, Northern User Experience met in Manchester. About 20 people showed up, so it was great to see so much interest. There were two talks: Does Technology Make any Difference in our Social Life This talk by Alistair Sutcliffe was about research being carried out at Manchester University about Dunbar’s number and it’s relation [...]
The Jung Person’s Guide to User Experience Part II: Using Personality Types to Assess and Test User Journeys
Here’s a proposition for you: there is no such thing as ‘basic’, ‘intermediate’ and ‘advanced’ users when it comes to user journeys. For user journeys, there are four types of journey which users may take. These journeys mirror anciently-recognised personality types – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey_Temperament_Sorter Broadly speaking, the user journeys are: Give me the top answer [...]
The Jung Person’s Guide to User Experience (Part I): Archtypes
Or ‘Jungian Psychology and Usability Heuristics’. Proposition In the same way as the human mind is split into the ‘conscious’, ‘personal subconscious’, and ‘collective unconscious’, user experience can be split into ‘user interface’, ‘user journeys’, and ‘heuristics’. This has a couple of implications: That heuristics are universal and therefore should not include site-specific elements, i.e. heuristics should [...]
UXCampLondon 2010 Report
I attended the last UXCampLondon, which was hosted at LBi in London and also sponsored by whatusersdo (who I was hoping to meet). I presented on “A Jung Person’s Guide to User Experience: Archetypes and Personality Types”. I’m not sure the title gave the session justice, so I’ll change it for next time. Reports on [...]
Northern User Experience report – “Ambient Findability”
Went the the Northern User Experience meeting last Monday.We discusses Ambient Findability by Morville – who’s a bit of an IA (Information Architecture) guru for co-writing the seminal work, ‘Information Architecture for the World Wide Web’. It’s a couple of years since I read the book, but I do remember finding the book rather academic [...]
Barcamp North East 3 Report
Just got back from BarCamp NorthEast 3. I’ll assume that you either know about it. If not, you can read up about the event at barcampnortheast.com, or about BarCamps at barcamp.org. The Sessions Okay, in no particular order – just whatever order I remember them in (not including the one I did – see below): [...]
Reduce size of Captivate 3 file
At last! I have been trying for ages to reduce the size of a Captivate 3 file (the cp file, not the swf file). I have savings, file and close, deleting, importing to a new file. Everything. Nothing but nothing worked. I created loads of slides I didn’t need, and when I delete them, the [...]
BarCamp Bradford #bcbradford
was fantastic – i will be writing some posts about it soon – checkin again in early December to read!
How Personality Can Improve User Experience
Dean Vipond gave an entertaining and interesting talk at Future of Web Design, Leeds last Wednesday. He was looking at ways in which a website can have personality and how that helps to make the user feel engaged. Perhaps the ****ing amazon example he gave would require some thought, but I did notice one myself [...]
Is facebook a good use of your time?
Watched a late night program last night about facebook and the impact it’s having on society. Let’s start with a word about friends. Some people say that facebook devalues the meaning of the word friend. I prefer to think that the word friend has been redefined. Friend now means ‘passing acquaintance’. and what we used [...]