Talk Slides and Older Essays
See also my published papers.
- Boston MiniUPA (Usability Professionals Assoc chapter conference) talk, "Mining Your Data: An Easy Intro to a Tough Topic (pdf slides)."
- Slides from an invited talk at UIUC, HCI Program, June 2010: The Evolution of Fan Video Editors.
- BostonCHI Panel Notes: User Experience Organizations (from Symantec, Fidelity, Oracle, EMC). September 2007.
- Design for Online Community: Past the Hype (ppt), a talk from the local Boston UXNetwork kickoff meeting. Simpler version without as many pics available on Slideshare.
- Twenty Things I Believe About Product Design (Originally April 2005, revised a third time Dec 2006)
- Jobs Posted on BayCHI (June 06): A minor data mining exploration of the UCD jobs advertised from 2003 to 2006 on the Bay Area SigCHI job bank.
- A PPT presentation: "The Hiring Problem: Academic HCI vs. the Real World of Practice." Aka, "What I Wish I'd Been Taught in School" about the practice of UI design (and the difficulty of hiring good people from school). Given at UW in 2004.
Travel Essays
- Twitchers and Tweeters of Fair Isle (2002, posted January 2006). About a trip to a remote Scottish island and the bird watching fanatics there.
- The Haunting of Windhouse on Yell (2002, posted January 2006, updated 2007). About a haunted house and local folklore in Shetland, north of the Scottish mainland.
- My Summer Vacation in Siberia (2003, May 2005). An ill-fated trip to Siberia with a friend.
- A Visit to a Turkish Hammam (France, 2001). Disorientation in French, while naked.