Ghostweather Research & Design

Pieces posted on the blog or elsewhere about travel adventures I've had.

• 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.

Essays and talk slides about the computer industry and interface design, archived here.

• BostonCHI Panel Notes: User Experience Organizations (from Symantec, Fidelity, Oracle, EMC). September 2007.
• Victoria's Secret Market Research: Criticism of their Recent Survey and Apparent Approach... A blog post from August 07 that gets a fair amount of traffic, unsurprisingly!
• 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.
• The HP Scanner Dialog (Aug 05)
• To Spec or Not to Spec; or: Whether To Design It or Just Mess It All Up (Jan 05)
• 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.
• See also my old published research papers.

My list of selected published works is available on the Papers and Books page.