This is all my non-UX stuff.
Having seen some truly amazing steampunk keyboard mods over the years by the likes of Jake von Slatt and Datamancer (rest his soul), I wanted to try my hand at one myself. But I didn’t have access to a machine shop, and I didn’t want to spend the GDP of Canada on tools and materials. […] Continue reading
Amongst my weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise, and social network analysis. SNA isn’t technically a UX skill — it’s gotten more press in the last decade as a tool for uncloaking terrorist networks — but it can be useful in any organization. SNA attempts to look past the official org chart and […] Continue reading
I won’t quit my day job, but I was pleased with how this turned out. In a previous role, I managed about 170 student security guards. Each semester, I was responsible for collecting their availability and producing a schedule for them. By hand, the scheduling took over a week of full-time work, on top of […] Continue reading
After much toil, I finally finished my thesis, User-Centered Design in Virtual World Interfaces: A Human Factors Perspective on Third-Party Second Life Viewers at the end of April and was awarded distinction after my defense. Unfortunately, (very) recent advances in Linden’s proprietary viewer, as well as their requirements of third-party viewers, have already rendered much […] Continue reading