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	<title>UserZen Meditations &#187; usability</title>
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		<title>A New Direction for UX Design</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/09/04/a-new-direction-for-ux-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  believe Fred Beecher has cut straight to the heart of why the iPhone has changed the way that mobile computing and touch interface will be designed in the future.
He mentions not only game theory, but learnability and the use of fun to help users become familiar with an interface.
While he disagrees with those that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Levels of Usability Design</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/08/20/3-levels-of-usability-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I may have wanted to blackball my colleague, Dana Chisnell out of personal poutiness due to her leaving the Bay Area (pooey); She just keeps on churning out amazing and useful books Handbook of Usability Testing, 2nd Ed. and articles.
Today, she wrote this blog post about providing more than just basic usability in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Usability Testing?</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/07/15/what-is-usability-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I own my own business and when people ask what I do, I say, &#8220;I do usability testing.&#8221; Quite often (even when they are in software or product development) they give that quizzical look.

Then ask, &#8220;What exactly is Usability Testing?&#8221;
I have a few different spiels (and resources on this site). I can go into great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silverback Guerilla Usability Testing</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/07/10/silverback-guerilla-usability-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/?p=376</guid>
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I have been using Morae fromTechSmith to do the bulk of my usability testing and have been wanting to run tests using my mac. One of the applications I have been looking at is Silverback made by Clearleft. From what I can see, it is a stripped down application that will work well for guerilla-style, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash Catalyst Video Tour</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/06/04/flash-catalyst-video-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adobe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interaction Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All these new tools coming out of Adobe Labs! It is making it easier and easier for designers and developers to communicate easily with each other. My hope is that it will lead to better collaboration which brings better products for humans.
More information can be found on the Adobe Site (added since the video that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refactoring with User Experience and IT Structure</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/05/19/refactoring-with-user-experience-and-it-structure/</link>
		<comments>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/05/19/refactoring-with-user-experience-and-it-structure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 06:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/?p=361</guid>
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I read an article by Peter Hornsby on UXmatters talking about utilizing the software code revisionist method of code refactoring. The idea is to make the code easier for software engineers to understand and work with. There is no change to the functioning of the software but the code gets cleaned up and easier to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UX in an Agile Development Process</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/03/14/ux-in-an-agile-development-process/</link>
		<comments>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/03/14/ux-in-an-agile-development-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
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I had a conversation with a colleague yesterday about Agile development environments and how it is difficult to evangelize usability and design with UX in mind. While I argued that it was completely possible to keep usability as a priority while still scrumming constantly and pushing the envelope of development, I realize that in larger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sixth Sense Seamless Technology</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/03/12/337/</link>
		<comments>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/03/12/337/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interaction Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/?p=337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ted continues to be cutting edge and exciting.
The idea of having pertinent, semantically appropriate information literally at your fingertips in the moments you need it to make a decision about your next action is what we really want. This technology could make it happen. Its called Sixth Sense and is being developed by Fluid Interfaces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing a Website</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/03/03/reviewing-a-website/</link>
		<comments>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/03/03/reviewing-a-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/?p=332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As usability consultants, we are often asked to look at websites and give our &#8216;opinion&#8217;. It is important that we keep the most important factors in mind when looking at a website from the outside when WE are the users. A great article about reviewing websites on UX Matters. 
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/02/reviewing-user-interfaces.php

  addthis_url    [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touch Interfaces On More Devices</title>
		<link>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/03/01/touch-interfaces-on-more-devices/</link>
		<comments>http://fritzboyle.edublogs.org/2009/03/01/touch-interfaces-on-more-devices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fritzboyle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While iPhones and HTC G1 may be the market focus of touch technology, the touch and gestural interface is continuing to expand and industry leaders have plans for more devices and applications utilizing the touch technology.
A great article from Information Week interviewed several industry leaders and gives a great overview of the direction that touch [...]]]></description>
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