SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

One of my favourite blogs is Heathervescent - by an L.A. based ajax guru. She points us to a great web site dedicated to the discarted. I love this picture. It’s a great poster for UX design. Even when you get it right - eventually it will wear out. User [...]

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All things virtual are not always the most satisfying user experiences. A biometric iris scan to start your car wouldn’t be the same as a satisfying turn of the key. Do you remember those big tower PCs that had a key for security?
What about a physical key for a website? Along [...]

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So what would you do if your favourite web 2.0 app decided to cancel your registration and block you from the service? Call the FBI???
We just got a comment from “Shawn” on an older post about Vancouver-based dating site Plenty of Fish. The writer’s 2-page rant describes how he’s been “unfairly banned” since Independance Day [...]

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Now that O’Reilly owns the trademark to Web 2.0, they’re going after all of the W5!! Where 2.0 launches today in San Jose. It’s a conference dedicated to location-based services. There’s lots of web 2.0 mash-ups including Quakr, loopt, Weogeo, Nearby Now, and Botanicalls… As an interesting sidenote - many of the speakers are user [...]

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Ok - I’m a big Neil Young fan. Didn’t mind Crosby Stills Nash & Young either. But YIKES - what a rendition of the US national anthem by Stephen Stills. He sure could have used some harmonies to smooth things over! Can’t really complain though - he remembered the words!
Well, Stephen, I’m lovin’ the one [...]

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Following up from the last post, it’s perhaps ironic that this startup HQs from the city that also hosts the RCMP and The Canadian Security Intelligence Service… Spy vs Spy is as common as tulips here in Ottawa.
But as they say… if you’ve got nothing to hide, why not share it. That’s the [...]

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In a great tip to Canadian technology and entrepreneurs, the alarm clock published a list celebrating top up and comers and current success stories. With the assistance of B5’s Mark Evans - these are the companies to watch!
Toronto’s Extend media (video ASP)
Kelowna’s Club Penguin (tween social net)
Vancouver’s EQO (mobile IM)
Montreal’s Weblo (virtual world economy)
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If you’ve got a complex UI to architect - you know that organizing, prioritizing, and updating tasks can be daunting. This is especially challenging when many use cases intersect, or have dependant behaviours. Task Architect - an Ottawa company specializing in designing human factors tools has the solution in its task analysis software.
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Gartner is well-known for its analysis of technology’s impact on business. They rarely consider the user interface. But it seems the UI is becoming more “business-critical”. They recently* published an overview titled “The Evolving User Interface From Graphical UI to Environmental UI“. It’s an interesting hypothesis - though perhaps a tad [...]

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So sure - I’d love to be a rock star. But the “musical talent gene” somehow didn’t make it in. Lucky for me Pete Townshend (of Who fame) launched The Lifehouse Method this month. It’s a web site where you upload various samples of your voice and rhythms. Pete’s software then mixes it up to [...]

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