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I hadn’t heard or seen anything from the Kopete devs yet, but I did ping Matt earlier this week to help spread the word to the rest of the project. Remember, this is an activity for you the developers, not me. I make myself available to answer questions and facilitate discussion, but the purpose of the user research profiles is to get developers more aware about their users. I will be at UDS next week and will be checking up on the Kopete User Research Profile once I get back.

seele :: May.15.2008 :: Asides, KDE/Kubuntu, Usability :: Comments Off

They call it a feature, but it’s really just a pain in the ass.

seele :: May.14.2008 :: Asides, Design, Humor :: Comments Off

So this evening we set out excited and anxious for the Radiohead show. The venue was 45 minutes away (+30-45 minutes in weekday traffic which we didn’t have since it was Sunday). Torrential downpours screwed with traffic and the roads, with the police redirecting traffic all over mother earth, basically in circles around the arena. 3 hours later, we turned around having been 5 miles from the arena for the last 2 hours. When we turned around, it was already 1 hour in to Radiohead’s set (we had called to see if the set would be postponed because of weather) and we still had 3 miles to go, then park, then get in to the arena. Basically we would miss the show regardless of our actions since Virginia has noise ordinances which requires shows to be over by 11/11:30PM. There were still hundreds (not exaggerating) of cars lined up trying to gain entrance to the arena and park when we turned back to go home. The lady on the phone said to call the Box Office tomorrow about refunds (I’d like to see pictures of how empty the arena was).

No Radiohead tonight. BOO

seele :: May.12.2008 :: Asides, Life, Music :: Comments Off

Corey was nice enough to start an Attendees page to collect travel information for the upcoming UDS on May 19th. Add your info so you can coordinate taxis or whatever with other travelers.

seele :: May.06.2008 :: Asides, KDE/Kubuntu :: No Comments »

Last night I went to watch a usability test session of Drupal (with eyetracking!). It is a group project my summer intern is involved with for her Research Methods class. She invited me to observe since she knew I am involved in open source. It’s nice to see design students becoming more aware and more interested in open source software. We even received a few SoU applications from students at my alma mater.

… now to finish writing about use cases and scenarios.

seele :: Apr.23.2008 :: Asides, Usability :: Comments Off