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RT @EmmMacfarlane: I bet a lot of the people most offended by the term "Royal" are people who wish Canada didn't even have a military.
There's a lot of trash talk about social networks these days, and rightfully so: the lack of adequate privacy controls, the lack of control over data given to third parties, and the creepy targeted ads rub a lot of people the wrong way. For a moment, forget all that. Let me tell you a social [...] Read More…
I read a lot about software interaction design these days. I recently read an article providing this bit of advice: create designs that allow people to forget about the software they're using. As an example, if you're trying to pay your bills using your bank's website, you should be able to focus on [...] Read More…
I'm behind in my blog reading lately and I just now came across Whitney Hess's great post My Best Advice for Conducting User Interviews. If you're new to interviewing, I highly recommend checking out her tips to see what it's all about. Her advice is applicable whether you're doing casual or empirical user [...] Read More…
It has been a whole year since I graduated in Toronto. My, how time has flown! In an overdue attempt at a victory lap, I tried to publish some of my research at the VLHCC 2010 conference. Unfortunately, I didn't make the cut. It was worth a shot though and I'm [...] Read More…
A few months ago, I made a jump back into industry after my brief but enjoyable stint in the world of big science research. My niftiest project at Institute for Systems Biology is described in a software article that I recently published along with Eric Deutsch and John Boyle in BMC Medical Genomics. [...] Read More…