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wow. check out this great UX lineup for the AjaxExperience….. awww… now I want to go!
Author: Leisa Reichelt
links for 24 September 2006
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“…privacy is much more complex. It’s about who you choose to disclose information to, how, and for what purpose. And the key word there is “choose.†People are willing to share all sorts of information, as long as they are in control.â€
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“When Facebook unilaterally changed the rules about how personal information was revealed, it reminded people that they weren’t in control.” I’m finding this topic really interesting and relevant at the moment. I’ve just been doing a bit of research latel
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“Privacy is not simply about the state of an inanimate object or set of bytes; it is about the sense of vulnerability that an individual experiences. When people feel exposed or invaded, there’s a privacy issue.”
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“Field studies, user observations, contextual analyses, and all procedures that aim to determine true human needs are still just as important as ever – but they should all be done outside of the product process.” hrmmm… still thinking on this one…
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What I’ve learned from Tokyo, however, leads me to believe that using ambient (low-frequency) signifiers may be another important—and sometimes more successful—approach.
links for 23 September 2006
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Sarah Blow throws around some ideas. My top reasons for not going to conferences is that I can’t afford the time (off work) or the money to attend them (they’re expensive and usually far away).
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My continuing hunt for chicks kicking butt in UX: “What’s next for the average computer user experience? Lili Cheng is in charge of user interface for Microsoft’s Vista team.”
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turn comment spam into something kind of pretty. Useless, but pretty :)
adobe acrobat + firefox = pain
Is it just me?
Adobe Acrobat has given me a lot of grief in the past few months… in lots of different ways that I don’t really understand. I find myself constantly having to kill Firefox if it opens a PDF in a browser window.
In the last two days I’ve had a PDF file open in a tab that I was trying to close. I only wanted to close that tab, but everything I’d try to close it, Firefox would totally lose it and freeze up until I’d Ctrl+Alt+Delete and kill it that way.
I finally worked out what was going on this afternoon. It seems that when I ask Firefox to close the tab, Acrobat wants to check if I really want to close the application, and it throws up a dialogue box to that effect… but the dialogue box appears *behind* my frozen (and unmovable) Firefox window.
The only way to ‘click’ it to make it go away and to unfreeze Firefox and close the tab seems to be to go back to ‘View Desktop’, then choose to view your Firefox session, which then pulls the dialogue box to the front, for some reason, where you can close it. Firefox then behaves normally again, and the PDF document and tab close.
I’m not sure whether this is Adobe or Firefox’s fault… but I’d sure like to give who ever it is a slap. Very, very annoying.