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For the past couple of months I have been quietly been working on launching a side project of mine called ScrnShots.

What is ScrnShots?

ScrnShots is a social web application for designers (graphic, interaction, information, etc.) to easily keep and share a digital inspiration diary. If that doesn't make any sense check out my profile page on ScrnShots:

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Well, another great CanUX has come and gone and we're left to only dream about the beautiful crisp mornings in Banff. As usual, some of the best content was found in the hallways talking to peers and colleagues. But, many of the presentation were also inspiring and insightful.

Here's a roundup of some of the presentations given at CanUX this year...

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Well it's that time of year again. I'm off to the Canadian User Experience '07 conference in Banff. This years looks like it will be a great event (as was last year) with a wide range of talks and topics.

Check out the list of speakers:

• Lou Rosenfeld, founding figure in modern information architecture, author of the best selling Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and publisher at Rosenfeld Media.
• Dave Armano, VP, Experience Design for Critical Mass. An active thought leader in the industry, David authors the popular Logic + Emotion blog currently ranked in the top 20 media + marketing blogs according to Advertising Age.
• Derek Featherstone, leading authority on accessibility and its implications for user experience.
• Gene Smith, author of the definitive book on tagging, coming early 2008 from New Riders, and principal at nForm User Experience.
• The Banff Leadership Arts Ensemble, world-renowned facilitators who work to help executives develop leadership capacity through the combination of the arts, creativity, and leadership principles.
• Kes and Sue Sampanthar, founders of Metamemes, producer of generative thinking tools and experts in moving beyond brainstorming for innovation.
• Jess McMullin, business and design evangelist, advocate for increasing practitioners’ influence in the organizations they serve, CanUX program chair and nForm User Experience founder.
• Brad Nemer, Product Portfolio Manager for Motorola’s Asian 3G business, and pioneer in combining business and design thinking.

Speaker write ups from: http://www.canux2007.com/

See ya in Banff!

Time Magazine has announced the iPhone as the Invention of the Year.

Here are their reasons:

1. The iPhone is Pretty
2. It's touchy feely
3. It will make other phones better
4. It's not a phone, it's a platform
5. It is but the ghost of iPhones yet to come

Can't disagree with that decision.

All of the hype around Google's supposed gPhone that's been keeping tech writers busy for the past few months has finally come to realization. Yesterday Google announced a new open source mobile operating system called "Android". So no gPhone (as of yet) but instead we get an operating system which will create millions of gPhones... or Androids.

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Friend and fellow user experience blogger, Nikolas Laufer-Edel's latest article Leopard rethinks the OS, but this cat still has some spots to show brings up a very interesting idea:

Is Apple teaching its users to be competent with low profile keyboards to get them ready for touch screen technology on the desktop?

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Here are the slides from the Usability 2.0: Usability as a Conversation talk I gave last night at the VanUE.

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Just wanted to let all y'all know that I will be speaking at the VanUE event on Tuesday October 16th. The talk will discuss the changes we've made in our usability process at ADG and the impact that it's had on both our work and the client's experience.

The official abstract:

Ever done a usability test, gone to the trouble of writing that killer report and seen the results go nowhere? Ever have to read someone else usability test report and think you’ve found the cure for insomnia? At Analytic Design Group we’ve experienced both frustrations and have come up with a better way, something we call Usability 2.0. This talk reviews how we’ve overhauled the process and come up with better ways to:

1. find participants
2. collect data
3. report our findings

Our clients have gone from reluctant readers of our reports to enthusiastic participants in the process. We’ve improved the client user experience and think that because of their far deeper engagement we’re producing much higher quality analysis and reporting that in turn results in a greater improvements to the end user’s customer experience as well.

Hope to see everyone out. It should be a good evening of user experience fun!