Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
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 ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Found 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 ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
A 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.
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
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 ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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 ...
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