With the coming release of Mac OSX Snow Leopard, I find it interesting to compare Microsoft’s and Apple’s policy regarding serial numbers, activations, and how they affect the user experience.
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That session is one of those that can only happen in a bar camp: it was pretty much improvised, consisted mainly of a group discussion. I found it however very interesting especially since a couple of participants were less deep in UX than the rest of us, and provided a somewhat external outlook, very much appreciated given the topic.
In the field of UX, you pretty much have as many job titles as you have individuals (each of these post it is one!), and it is very difficult, even for us, to clearly see what each of these mean.
I enjoyed the presentation, but just like after watching the official introduction at Google IO, I am not sold on Wave.
The technology behind it sure seems impressive, but I have yet to see (or understand?) what concrete benefits it brings. I have not yet seen any use that would not have been filled by either email, IM, a forum, or google apps.
Wave is remixing all of those into something new, which is bound to be very disturbing as it will be in a uncanny valley where we think we know what is there (for ex. someone typing a message), while the reality is different from what we expect (you can edit you correspondant message while he types it).
Seems to me they try to have one single tool to achieve very different things, which is generally a recipe for failure.
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OK, that title may be a bit hyperbolic. But it was still really great.
A barcamp with great people and very interesting session, all perfectly organised.
Oh, and free drinks in the sun next tot he river.
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This is it. #UXcamplondon pushed me over the edge, and I’m back in the blogging world.
Got tons of ideas from #UXcamplondon that I want to get out of my brain. This blog is meant to contribute to the conversation, so comments are most welcomed.
Hope you’ll like what’ you’ll read.
Also: this blog has been put together in a rush. I am supposed to be working on finishing my MSc dissertation, so some work has been delayed (theme, advanced configuration etc).
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