Browsing articles tagged with " UI"
May 17, 2008
leala

Usability and last.fm Pt. 1

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Ok, so I’ve decided to get on the last.fm boat. Why do you ask did it take me so long? Well, when I started using it again I remembered why. Simply, I don’t think I like it. I am a big fan of the Pandora project and prefer that to almost any online music application. However, I was intrigued by last.fm’s use of social integration (tagging, comments, groups, wiki) and, well, there is a widget I can use with my WordPress blog. As a new user last.fm frustrates me, I get lost within the framework and cannot find my way back to for example “my favorites”. I “heart” songs and I can’t find where to locate them again, other than the strange “playlist” feature. Furthermore the playlist feature is not a list of “my favorites” but rather a list of “some” songs I was able to add to yet another… Read More »

May 10, 2008
leala

UNC Library & Information Science Video Series

This is a series of lectures and interviews at UNC-Chapel Hill on topics related to information and library science and the use of information in learning and research. Permalink: UNC Information in Life Series on Youtube

About me:

Metadata and Taxonomies are my thing. I spend an awful lot of time drinking coffee and having existential dilemmas on how to categorize myself. I like technology and humans, but only at the same time (HCI). You can find me out in the real world picking locks (only ones that belong to me), watching Doctor Who or playing soccer.

Nerdy things I blog about for other nerds: metadata and taxonomies, digital asset management (DAM), technology transitions and business change, professional development, social media privacy, and usability for information retrieval.

Disclaimer: This is a personal weblog and does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer (any of them). It is solely my opinion lame as it may be.