Monthly Archives: February 2008

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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 (2/4/08)

Last week, I sent a “final” draft of my second year project proposal to my committee. I discussed the project with my advisors and in the second year project class where I continued to get valuable feedback. Most importantly, I am trying to be cautious about ascribing motivations to observed user behavior. Ed Hutchins suggested that I consider my data [...]

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In case you’re curious what I’ve been reading…
VectorMagic

Wow, this is neat. This is an online bitmap to vector conversion tool. Watch the video
Lead Contamination - Tap Water - Medicine and Health - New York Times

The claim has the ring of a myth. But environmental scientists say it is real.The reason is that hot [...]