New toy! LilyPad Arduinos
- Posted on September 20, 2012
- in Development, Interactive, Nifty
- by alzulas
So, I decided to try and put together a couple of things I really enjoy, playing with hardware and knitting. Yeah, you heard right, knitting. Looking around on the internet I come to find the LilyPad arduino out of MIT media labs. Oh MIT, you have all the fun toys. [...]
Continue reading...Useful new tool: Rescue Time and Github Data Driven Documents
- Posted on August 27, 2012
- in Development, Nifty, Usable
- by alzulas
I’ve been working a while on several pages with visualizations of important quantitative data. I’ve been speaking a bit with a gentleman who works for Rescue Time (rescuetime.com), a fun new technology in time management. I’ve been using Rescue Time for a while to tell how I’m doing on productivity [...]
Continue reading...Interactivity that’s unusable
- Posted on August 10, 2012
- in Interactive, Not usable, The Usability Blog
- by alzulas
I recently came upon a very unusable website, http://thealdermangroup.net/ where an interactivity idea was taken overboard. The idea for the interactivity is really interesting, but the actual follow through was poorly done. As you hover over letters on the website you get different pop ups. The implementation problem is that they use different [...]
Continue reading...Finding books on a subject
- Posted on August 9, 2012
- in Not usable, The Usability Blog
- by alzulas
Recently, since I’ve been in Atlanta, GA for my internship for a many weeks now, I’ve started to feel a little homesick. Normally, I like to remedy times when I feel down with books that include characters who understand what I’m going through. This is pretty easy if I just [...]
Continue reading...PlayStation 3 and why it desperately needs to be fixed
- Posted on May 16, 2012
- in Games, Not usable
- by alzulas
Alright guys, if you want to know why XBox is doing so well and people still constantly make fun of PS3, look no further than their usability problems. I plugged back in my console for the first time in a few months (it’s banned from the internet due to their [...]
Continue reading...ACM CHI2012
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- in Interactive, Nifty
- by alzulas
There’s just so much to be said about this conference, I don’t think it can be contained in a post. So CHI2012 this year was pretty awesome. Held in Austin Texas, and even though the water made me sick for some reason, still a fun experience. Also, I didn’t take [...]
Continue reading...Minneapolis Airport on my way to CHI2012
- Posted on May 9, 2012
- in Interactive, Nifty
- by alzulas
My first blog post will be discussing an interesting interactivity that I saw on my way to CHI2012 conference in Austin Texas. I took some really awful pictures of it, and I will have to learn to take better pictures as I go with this blog. I just found it [...]
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- New toy! LilyPad Arduinos September 20, 2012So, I decided to try and put together a couple of things I really enjoy, playing with hardware and knitting. Yeah, you heard right, knitting. Looking around on the internet I come to find the LilyPad arduino out of MIT media labs. Oh MIT, you have all the fun toys. […]
- Useful new tool: Rescue Time and Github Data Driven Documents August 27, 2012I’ve been working a while on several pages with visualizations of important quantitative data. I’ve been speaking a bit with a gentleman who works for Rescue Time (rescuetime.com), a fun new technology in time management. I’ve been using Rescue Time for a while to tell how I’m doing on productivity […]
- Interactivity that’s unusable August 10, 2012I recently came upon a very unusable website, http://thealdermangroup.net/ where an interactivity idea was taken overboard. The idea for the interactivity is really interesting, but the actual follow through was poorly done. As you hover over letters on the website you get different pop ups. The implementation problem is that they use different […]
- Finding books on a subject August 9, 2012Recently, since I’ve been in Atlanta, GA for my internship for a many weeks now, I’ve started to feel a little homesick. Normally, I like to remedy times when I feel down with books that include characters who understand what I’m going through. This is pretty easy if I just […]
- PlayStation 3 and why it desperately needs to be fixed May 16, 2012Alright guys, if you want to know why XBox is doing so well and people still constantly make fun of PS3, look no further than their usability problems. I plugged back in my console for the first time in a few months (it’s banned from the internet due to their […]
- ACM CHI2012 May 16, 2012There’s just so much to be said about this conference, I don’t think it can be contained in a post. So CHI2012 this year was pretty awesome. Held in Austin Texas, and even though the water made me sick for some reason, still a fun experience. Also, I didn’t take […]
- Minneapolis Airport on my way to CHI2012 May 9, 2012My first blog post will be discussing an interesting interactivity that I saw on my way to CHI2012 conference in Austin Texas. I took some really awful pictures of it, and I will have to learn to take better pictures as I go with this blog. I just found it […]