Monthly Archives: November 2008

Drawing parallels in the usability of everyday things

As I stuck my foot into the elevator at the Habañero offices — from the inside, of course — to hold it open for a colleague this morning, it struck me that a lot of the principles of user-centric design that we hold dear for interactive media and web development are not as readily applied to everyday [...]

Tools, tools, and more tools

Lately we have tried different tools at Habañero during our design process because we’re always on the lookout for ways to improve how we do things. We looked at some usability testing, video capture, and design deliverable applications, among others. I thought it was about time to share some of the tools we have tried or want [...]

UE Done Right In Calgary and Regina

Ben and I are going on the road to teach about our user experience process at Habañero. We will be visiting Calgary on December 3 & 4, and Regina on January 26 & 27. Brrrrr!
Course Synopsis
In this course you will explore a number of tools and techniques that you can integrate into any website, intranet, [...]

All you need to know about SharePoint themes

VanSPUG (Vancouver SharePoint User Group) is meeting on Wednesday November 12 to learn about SharePoint themes. Come see one of our User Experience developers, Sing Chan, talk about themes from design to deployment:

Find out what themes are and what themes CAN AND CANNOT do from a design and user experience perspective.
Learn how to create new [...]

Junior UE Developer Needed!

Fresh on the heels of our awesome-students-now-employees Kurtis and Ben, we’re looking to work with another co-op student! Kurtis joined us as a student of design and Ben worked through two IA terms, so now we’d like to see if we can find an equally fabulous UE Dev co-op student.
We firmly believe that any successful [...]