Thought-Crumbs: Archive

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Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Watch

Dec 22nd

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Dec 21st

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iPad Settings →

Dec 20th

Dec 18th

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iPhone App translates real time...

“QuestVisual has created an amazing iPhone app that will translate any text it can see in real time. Using Optical Character Recognition technology, the software recognizes letters and words, checks them against a dictionary, then re-renders the translation over the image. At the moment, the $4.99 app only does Spanish-English, and English-Spanish, but other languages are in the...

Dec 17th

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Dec 17th

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Johns Phone again...

Cute. Asleep and Awake. via BergLondon

Dec 17th

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Usability Testing

15 December 2010 Results of Usability Testing For the purpose of the test, software center, firefox, file manager, tomboy notes were in the launcher. Test machine was a desktop machine using a 22” monitor. Tested: Understanding of Menu Bar Icons, Software Center, Scrollbar Prototype. Participants: 4 participants of various ages and occupations. All describe themselves as relatively tech savy. ...

Dec 15th

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The importance of drawing

And using a sketchbook. I rarely take time to sit and draw like I did at school - I loved drawing anything and everything while I was studying Art - but during my degree (Interactive Media Design) and career so far, I’ve used drawing more as a method of communication. It’s difficult to sit in front of your monitor for hours on end and to create something that you actually like. When I sit...

Dec 14th

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Busy busy busy...

Ok suddenly rushed and insanely busy, so quickly… and I’ll try to blog every day from NOW. Oh but then it’s christmas. Anyway, been doing field research / home visits (four!) with users and their diaries. Fascinating. Amazing experience and so happy. I find user research so gratifying, or enlightening or SOMETHING because it feels like, oh yeah, I do design for a reason....

Dec 14th

When I’m really busy. I don’t blog. When I’m not so busy, I blog. To look busy. And how do you break back into blogging after time away? It can’t not have a picture right? Too stale. Well STALE IT IS.

Dec 14th

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Product Delivery Cycle

mediayarn: Interesting visualization of Agile development…Go Scrum!

Dec 9th

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UX Spec for Launcher →

Dec 8th

I'm being bad.

… and posting previous work up from dates in the past. I’m basically migrating some google docs which is a slower process than I first thought! So bare with me, and soon there will be some new tags to search with relation to ubuntu :)

Dec 8th

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Things you definitely need in settings...

Wallpaper Brightness Connectivity (Wifi) - Sound and Notifications General Setup About Machine Time and Date Assistive Device Nationality (Language support, keyboard setup) User Accounts What other things do we often see? Screensaver / Photo Frame. What Gnome is working on currently: Personal Settings Profile & Accounts Screen (brightness) ...

Dec 7th

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Printer Panel Work →

Dec 7th

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The printing mistake that cost millions...

I’m doing some work on printer preferences right now, and this caught my eye (originally tweeted by @designtaxi Love human errors, I think I’d cry if I made a mistake of this scale though.

Dec 7th

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Study offers hope of 'repairing' MS damage →

Dec 7th

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LA VIE EN ROSE

“Our favourite director turns EIGHTY, and we want to celebrate (with) him, with everyone.” With a free typeface : http://www.carvalho-bernau.com/jlg/

Dec 7th