Nick Smith http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog Spotlight on random items from the web Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:46:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Undercover User Experience Notes from Cennydd Bowles‘ presentation at London Web on Thursday 15 July 2010. Cennydd is currently at Clearleft.

The User Experience (UX) disease

Some businesses get user experience, but for every one that does there are 999…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/07/16/undercover-user-experience/ Google User Experience Research Last Thursday evening I went to a talk hosted by the UKUPA at LBi. The following is a reworking of my notes from the event. As always, they may not be accurate, typos may exist and it may…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/02/25/google-user-experience-research/ Is the iPad for creating or consuming? As an avid Apple follower and a web designer I’m interested to know. I saw Apple demo an iPad version of iWorks, but will this thing work for real-world productivity? If it’s just for consuming, then it’s all set up…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/02/10/is-the-ipad-for-creating-or-consuming/ Crowdfunding On Friday I went to Minibar, the first to present was Charles Armstrong from Trampoline Systems on the practicalities of crowdfunding. These are my notes, they may not make complete sense, although they are reworked somewhat from what…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/02/01/crowdfunding/ V&A Connects – with onedotzero Yesterday evening I went to a talk hosted by the V&A, entitled “Digital Futures: Storytelling in the Digital Domain“. The following is a reworking of my notes from the event, they are still pretty…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2010/01/27/va-connects-with-onedotzero/ Autism, the Internet (and Antelopes) The second talk for Standards.Next. Jamie Knight (iMetLion.com) is a special kind of web person, he does design and development, and he does both well. See Jamie’s presentation notes and slides – I’m afraid to say I…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2009/10/01/autism-the-internet-and-antelopes/ Accessibility Beyond Code I was happy to catch the Standards.Next event on Saturday 19 September at City University. After a brief hiccup getting the projector to work, the seminar started with Antonia Hyde’s presentation.

Antonia (hiantonia.wordpress.com) has been working in…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2009/09/28/accessibility-beyond-code/ @media 2009 I volunteered for this year’s conference so I was there from 6am packing bags then later answering questions and just generally helping out where needed. I did manage to attend a few sessions so what follows is a brief…

]]> http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2009/07/24/media2009/ Homage to the Nokia n95 http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2009/06/07/homage-to-the-nokia/ Digital Democracy http://www.nicksmith.co.uk/blog/2009/05/26/digital-democracy/