Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability Tools and Products

[HB Gill]

I'd recommend looking at Morae by TechSmith:
http://www.techsmith.com/morae.asp

Hal Gill, CEA
FGM, Inc.
www.fgm.com

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Rony Philip  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Even in this recession time, I have been given a decent budget for my user
> experience team. I have planned to invest in usability tools/ products
> (assets) for our team. E.g. Eye tracker.
>
> Could anyone suggest the other tools/products (software or hardware assets)
> that I could look into?
>
> cheers,
> Rony
> 
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Aren't we just a little important to democracy?

[HB Gill]

Appreciate Jared's post. I've been working in the US Government arena for
some time and there is indeed a great deal of interest in making the
government more transparent through the work of many talented individuals.
The work going on now within OMB under Kshmendra Paul's leadership as Chief
Enterprise Architect has recently led to VUE-IT, for example, which allows
insight and drill down through the Federal Enterprise Architecture to
specific IT investments. It's not ideal yet, but it goes a long way to
making the complex simple.

Best regards,
Hal Gill, CEA
USAF SAF/XCTX
Strategic Planning, CIO and Warfighting Integration
www.fgm.com

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Jared Spool  wrote:

>
> On Jan 25, 2009, at 5:06 PM, s wrote:
>
> It's always boggled my mind why the gov't doesn't put UX advocates
>> (including designers, researchers, coders, QA) front and center in the
>> design of citizen-technology interfaces.
>>
>
> Actually, there are a lot of very talented designers and researchers
> working in the US government, the Canadian government, and other governments
> around the world.
>
> But just because those people are there doesn't stop other people from
> creating crappy interfaces. Government doesn't have a corner on crappy
> interfaces. They are a world-wide phenomena, spanning all industries and
> sectors.
>
> Don't even get me started on voting.
>>
>
> There are many people working really hard on this problem. It's a really
> hard problem. If you want to help, I know a team that is looking for
> volunteers.
>
> Does anyone have any experience/ evidence... HOPE?? to the contrary?
>>
>
> In the last 10 years, there's become a real awareness of the importance of
> good design in government systems. I have a lot of hope that we'll see real
> improvements, especially with the youthful experience of the incoming US
> administration.
>
> Jared
>
> Jared M. Spool
> User Interface Engineering
> 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845
> e: jsp...@uie.com p: +1 978 327 5561
> http://uie.com  Blog: http://uie.com/brainsparks  Twitter: jmspool
> UIE Web App Summit, 4/19-4/22: http://webappsummit.com
>
>
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[IxDA Discuss] JOB: Sr. Project Manager, Web & Information Portals

[HB Gill]

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[IxDA Discuss] Job: Information Architect - Falls Church, VA

[HB Gill]

Just the messenger...

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Cuil

[HB Gill]

YEp, they are down...

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:46:20, dave malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Not that you can check now (they seem to be down), but their image
> matching software is not all that accurate. There are two David
> Malouf's of interest in the search results (I win on the 1st page on
> Cuil--Yeah!), but the picture is never of me or even associated with
> me. Once they even had Jared Spool's picture. But most times it is
> some other David Malouf (usually the more famous Australian
> novelist). What really sucks is that none of my categories show up on
> the right even though I'm more of the articles listed on the page.
>
> They have a lot of work to do. ;-)
>
> -- dave
>
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