usability fails are everywhere and it’s sad.
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29 Mar 2009It’s been a week since I got back from the Information Architecture Summit. It was great, and fascinating, and interesting. There’s been a lot of food for thought churning in the back of my head, and now I’m going to try to make sense of it. One of the strongest themes was about pulling together [...]
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29 Mar 2009Woohoo! To toot my own horn, the WantKnot project I’ve been working on won 2nd place in the expoSItion contest in the Social Computing category. Great work, guys! We’ll be going to CHI next week with our project, and that should be fun.
On to the fail: when I arrived in Memphis, I felt fortunate to [...]
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19 Mar 2009Kinda in a hurry tonight, packing to go to Memphis for the IA Summit! But first, let’s complain a little about forms. Yeah yeah yeah, criticizing forms is kinda like shooting fish in a barrel. But! Even if we give the TennCo website some credit, there’s still plenty of fail to go around.
First, they [...]
My name is Leanna Gingras and I'm a graduate student at the University of Michigan's School of Information. My main vice is angry muttering. Instead of angrily muttering to myself whenever I encounter an astonishingly ineptly-designed object, I will mutter about it here and you can read it and we can angrily mutter together. I'll also be posting about stuff I do, links I think are nifty, and places I go.