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5th April 2004

Points and Lines ó User Research Analysis Goodness

“One of my favorite sessions at the IA Summit was Laurie Gray’s case study on ethnography of stockbrokers and their trading methods. There’s a lot of good in it, but what most excited me is how Laurie used a simple visualization to better understand what she had observed, and to demonstrate how the current system under consideration satisfied the approach of its users.”

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5th April 2004

Royksopping a look and feel

“An advert for energy megacorp Areva rips off Royksopp’s video for ‘Remind Me’ which excited us so a while back. Except it can’t be a ripoff if it’s directed/created by the same team who did the original video. Right?”

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5th April 2004

This is a website

“Lately Iíve been thinking about blogs. You know, weblogs ó those magical online creations of semi-ordinary people like you, me, your mom, your dentist ó all expressing the banal, the extraordinary, the helpful, and the controversial, for web surfers far and wide to read and comment on.”

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5th April 2004

The History ofÖ

“The history of credit cards. The history of cell phones. The history of contact lenses. The history ofÖwell, the history of ìyou name itî. Whatever history you need, itís here. This website is the premier site for informative articles about the history of all those things youíve always wondered about.”

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