The SILS Alumni Association held a speed networking event earlier this week. It’s the second one I attended and, although fewer students showed up this year than last year, I thought it went very well.The “mentors” — either SILS alums or local folks working in the IS/LS domains who have ties to SILS — sat [...]
Tagged networkingFound some interesting or otherwise time-passable things on the web related to prototyping and our discussion on Wednesday.
A List Apart runs deep-dish articles on web design. This article shows how paper is good for tabbed interfaces, widgets, and usability testing. He also suggests keeping a glue stick handy.
A List Apart: Articles: Paper Prototyping
Pen-based low-fi [...]
Tagged GUIs, prototypesA perception test from an Australian newspaper. For the life of me, I can’t see her turning clockwise. I don’t “get it” — which is a right-brain trait, I see.
I remember reading a columnist in one of the Ziff-Davis mags, back in the mid-90s, lamenting the busting of the old 8.3 file-naming conventions that DOS imposed. With the new Win95 long filenames-with-spaces convention, he predicted that people would actually lose more files than find them again.
He used as an example their production process, [...]
Although UNC requires incoming freshmen to buy a laptop computer, and although some SILS classes require a laptop (I’m thinking here of the database or programming courses), by and large, I’ve found that I haven’t really needed a laptop on campus. I prefer taking notes by hand on paper, and the campus is lousy with [...]
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