This week I’m attending Usability Week, a 5-day usability boot camp put on by the Nielsen Normal Group. As in Jakob Nielsen. Day 1 was a pretty low-level overview, covering the science of usability and going into some procedural detail about how to perform usability testing. Quite honestly, it was nothing I didn’t know already… Continue reading Usability Week 2004, Day 1
Year: 2004
Bureaucrats Finally Starting to Get It
A few things happened this week in the fight against invasive marketing. Foremost is the announcement that the very first arrests under the federal CAN-SPAM act have been made. Arrest warrants were issued for four spammers in the Detroit area on the grounds that they sent fraudulent emails hawking weight loss pills, though two of… Continue reading Bureaucrats Finally Starting to Get It
FP!
Well, ok, it’s not really the First Post in the most technical sense, but it’s the first truly NEW post since the change of venue. I still have some more old stuff to add in, but first I’ll need to get the archiving sorted out. The left-side menu is already an unweildy height (especially on… Continue reading FP!