My previous post Fred Stutzman and Facebook reminded me of an essay from the May/August 2000 issue of North American Review. The essay I tore out and kept in my “Essays” folder lo these many years was by the writer Norman Lavers, now retired from teaching English and enthusiastically maintaining a site on The Robber [...]
Tagged blessay, curmudgeons, Email, the simple lifeImage by Getty Images via Daylife Fred Stutzman is a PhD student at SILS and the creator of numerous good things, among them ClaimID and the Mac-based Freedom (which I used today to good effect). He has a blog, Unit Structures, and tends to post announcements of upcoming events or good ‘n’ chewy postings related [...]
Tagged facebookPenelope Trunk trots out one of her regularly visited themes: why grad school is a bad idea. It rankled me a bit but I do have to remember that she’s talking to twenty-somethings and I’m a forty-odder. Her advice would be right-on to my 23-year-old self: I had very little direction, a graduate degree would [...]
Tagged DoIReallyWantaPhd?, penelope trunkThis post discusses the following readings: Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534. Head, A. J. (2003). Personas: setting the stage for building usable information sites. Online, 27(4), 14-21. <<In class, we wrote sample story/scenarios, and I [...]
This post discusses the following readings: Go, K., & Carroll, J.M. (2004). The blind men and the elephant: Views of scenario-based system design. interactions, 11(6), 44-53. Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534. I thought the best [...]