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well… here’s a crazy way of abbreviating a long word that I’ve never seen before. They call it a ‘numeronym’ because you count and show the number of letters between the first and last letter… what do you reckon?
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damn. W3C are using that crazy abbreviation too….
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Greg Olsen’s toolkit. “This toolkit provides resources for a variety of situations. Pick and choose what’s appropriate for your’s.” via http://darmano.typepad.com
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yep, it’s a piss-take, but it makes more sense to me than Guy Kawasake’s advice to bloggers ;)
Author: Leisa Reichelt
links for 04 May 2006
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The Usability Body of Knowledge (BoK) project is dedicated to creating a living reference that represents the collective knowledge of the usability profession.
internationali(s/z)ation
it makes me flinch just a little when I read a page written from a usability perspective about how different countries and cultures have language and other nuances that need to be accounted for in experience design, and to find that the page is littered with US spelling. Now, I know, it was written in the States, and that’s how you spell things over there. It’s just feels a little ironic or paradoxical perhaps when the words are localization, globalization, and internationalization.
I propose that in this context (when we who talk about such things are talking to each other) we use this format: internationali(s/z)ation. It’s like a little natural reminder that the only our American friends use the letter Z with such frequency and that the rest of us English speakers have probably had Microsoft Word try to correct our spelling for the better part of the time we’ve been interactive with technology.
So, perhaps I’m a little sensitive… go take a look at this page on the new Usability Body of Knowledge website and see if you think I’m overreacting.
links for 03 May 2006
A bit of a mixed bag again today.
P.S.Happy Birthday Mick :)
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a nice little article about how some ‘conventions’ are rubbish and user testing is the best way to decide if something works or not
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against the ‘three click rule’
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Some helpful resources (checklists etc.) for conducting research interviews, as per recommendations of the Australia Market & Social Research Society
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become a GCal poweruser. (Includes links to a few cool Firefox extensions)
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Aussie chick kicking user experience butt. Genevieve Bell is the head of Intel’s user experience group in the US. The Age profiles here here. Via Putting People First
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Hooray! Smart people writing smartly about patterns. ‘developed in the domains of architecture, town planning and interior design, Alexander’s thinking on design patterns has been appearing over the past few years in the field of software development th