I was listening to Buzz Out Loud this morning (ep. 801)and it appears that Chrome is faster than other browsers. And much faster than IE7. Here’s a link to some graphs.
I’ve tried it out on an interactive whiteboard in a classroom. I like the way it looks, but I think that the tabs in the title bar might be a bit of a stretch to reach for the vertically challenged teacher or student. Oh well.
The title bar/tab thing does look rather good tho. Here’s a screenie comparison, first there’s Chrome:
Then there’s Firefox (I’ve got lots of tabs open, I know):
A good article by Michael Beavers on Boxes and Arrows. It’s about organisations and clients, but relevant in an educational context.
“…it is good to remember stakeholders can come from anywhere in the organization—often from unexpected places. While our long-term goal is to create a user experience framework, we have to remember that along the way we may also be creating or influencing interdepartmental operations within companies.”
click for Setting up stakeholder interviews pt1
A great article by Isabelle Peyrichoux on UXmatters.
click for 10 Guidelines on UXmatters
Here are her 10 guidelines:
- Be aware of your own judgments and projections.
- Be genuine and transparent.
- Adapt to each user. Do not ask users to adapt to you.
- Be conscious of the way users are interacting with you.
- Get users to speak about their own experiences.
- Notice when users are censoring their own comments.
- Get users to speak in terms of problems, not solutions.
- Ask “Why?” and dig deeper.
- Make objective and precise observations.
- Allow users to be spontaneous and follow their flow.
For each of her guidelines she also give good real-world examples.
