Category Archives: User Experience

Drawing parallels in the usability of everyday things

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 – 4:54 PM

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 [...]

By Nick | Also posted in Design, Usability Testing, Web 2.0 | Comments (0)

UE Done Right In Calgary and Regina

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 – 11:45 AM

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, [...]

By Kathleen | Also posted in Calgary, Conferences, Design, Regina | Comments (0)

Working the process

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 – 4:49 PM

A new quarter has started at Habañero, which means new rocks to help improve internal processes. A small group from the UE Team were tasked to develop a solution to help communicate the UE process to the rest of the organization. Through discussion and analysis, we have come up with a pretty nifty (and still [...]

By Kathleen | Also posted in Design, Team Work, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Mad Men & the Creative Process

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 – 9:44 AM

I have to admit that I am starting to watch more TV now that the fall season has started. One of my favourite shows right now is Mad Men. If you haven’t see it, it’s a show that takes place in the early ’60s and follows characters who work in an ad agency in New York.
One [...]

By Jasvir | Also posted in Design, Team Work | Comments (0)

Web 2.0 Expo New York: Recap

Monday, September 22, 2008 – 6:25 PM

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I just spent a week in New York attending O’Reilly and TechWeb’s Web 2.0 Expo. I’m sure this has been covered to death in other places, so I’ll spare you the blow-by-blow delayed liveblog of the entire event.
While the keynotes were considered relatively weak from the perspective of most of the [...]

By Nick | Also posted in Conferences, Web 2.0 | Comments (2)