brynnafred musings and other goodies

weekly status update (2/25/2008)

This past week I coded and analyzed the 10 responses I received from the Mechanical Turk survey (PARC project). I’ve been re-writing the survey based on this preliminary data and plan to re-post to Mechanical Turk within the next week. I would like to supplement this survey data with a few in-person interviews, as well. [...]

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In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
Coding Horror: Every User Lies

The “paradox of the active user” is a paradox because users would save time in the long term by learning more about the system. But that’s not how people behave in the real world, so we cannot allow engineers to build products for an [...]

weekly status update (2/20/08)

Yes, this isn’t exactly weekly at the moment. I’ve been pretty sick the past 2 weeks, although I’m not trying to make excuses. I am finally recovering, though.
During the past 2 weeks at PARC, I wrote and piloted an interview on information sharing practices in the workplace. From it, I created a survey that I [...]