Respondent Engagement and Usability
My recent video blog on interaction design in online market research for Vision Critical.
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The Simple Things: epost
I subscribe to Canada Post’s epost service, which promises to consolidate delivery of all your bills. It doesn’t quite manage that, largely because not all vendors support the service. That may change;...
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Columbus Group Alumni
When I returned from Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley to work in Vancouver, I landed at a small but growing web development company called Columbus Group. Only a couple of years later, in 2001, the...
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Clouds of Confusion
“The cloud” is touted as one of the biggest advances of the current era. And it promises to be: having information stored centrally and synchronized seamlessly across multiple devices would be a...
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Canada Line Signage
I’ve noticed several instances in Vancouver recently of whiteboards and other makeshift signs erected (“plonked” might be a better term) at new facilities in an obvious effort to compensate for poor...
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The New Yorker iPad Issues List
I am curious to know what will happen when there are enough issues that the little navigation dots fill the width of the screen. I’m not sure Apple has an answer for this, but I’ve never seen this...
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Thoughts on Steve Jobs
When I saw a photo of a young Steve Jobs pop up on Flipboard today, I momentarily feared the worst: it had been only a couple of days before that Jack Layton‘s picture appearing on my iPad had...
View ArticleThe Costco Experience
I went to Costco the other day with a friend; I’d found myself there previously, once or twice, in similar circumstances. There was something about the place beyond the obvious that had kept me away....
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iOS Weather Apps for Vancouver
I was nipping across Carrall Street for a guilty pleasure the other night and ran into the fellow who’s helped out at Glory Food Market since years before I moved into the neighbourhood. I suppose we...
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