Monthly Archives: October 2006

It’s hard to see the red flags with rose coloured glasses on…

Monday, October 23, 2006 – 2:14 PM

… that is exactly what I told my friend when the engine of his 1989 Jaguar blew not long after he bought the car in a wave of enthusiasm. He ended up getting the engine re-built for more money than the car had cost when he said that he should have known this might [...]

By Barbara | Posted in Usability Testing, User Experience | Comments (0)

Search User Experience

Thursday, October 19, 2006 – 11:55 AM

We are all spoiled by the Google search user experience — enter a term and you generally get usable and relevant results. What a concept! For the most part, we don’t see the same user experience on website search engines. Even if the results you get back are relevant, they are often displayed in such [...]

By Caterina | Posted in Search, User Experience | Comments (0)

Calgary User Experience Group?!

Friday, October 13, 2006 – 3:53 PM

The Vancouver User Experience Group (VanUE) has been around now for a while, bringing awesome speakers in to talk about all sorts of user experience-related topics. Now that we’ve recently opened an office in the booming city of Calgary, we’d like to see a similar group in our new-found home.
There appears to be a Calgary [...]

By Joni | Posted in Calgary, User Experience | Comments (8)

Welcome to Habañero’s UE Blog!

Thursday, October 12, 2006 – 5:00 PM

One thing that we haven’t traditionally done a great job of is talking about all of the awesome user experience work we do at Habañero. If you look at our website or our UE portfolio you would think that we have done very little in the last year or so. Thankfully this is not the [...]

By Ben | Posted in Blogging, User Experience | Comments (1)