Posts Tagged ‘ias09

It’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 [...]

lactose fail

In: Uncategorized

29 Mar 2009

Woohoo! 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 [...]

form fail

In: Uncategorized

19 Mar 2009

Kinda 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 [...]


About this blog

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.

-->
  • Marc Toner: That's a prime example how lazy testing can result in really negative press. As you said, I doubt th [...]
  • Damon: I typed in this domain hoping it was either unregistered or already home to a massive database of ni [...]
  • George: The seat adjustments in a VW should be the standard for cars. I love the way the whole seat folds [...]
  • Zach: I always wondered about this myself. I always type the URL, virtually never use bookmarks. I also ge [...]
  • Tijmen Smit: This is one of the things that really annoys me sometimes. You think you tried the wrong url since i [...]

Random Quote

Any business that isn’t learning from their users doesn’t want to learn from their users. — Clay Shirkey

My latest tweets

Powered by Twitter Tools