Author: Davin Granroth

  • IUE2009: Keynote track, part 2

    The 3 afternoon presentations were top-notch. Feeling: What makes an engaging product experience? (Kumi Akiyoshi, Adaptive Path) How to do social media right in 2009 (Marta Strickland, Organic Detroit) Lessons learned from the world of game design (Lisa Mullinaux, pogo.com and Rich Briggs, Electronic Arts) The game design (3) presentation was the most stimulating. That…

  • IUE2009: Keynote track

    Presentations this morning Threshold of Acceptable Usability Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? Bringing left-brain and right-brain together (or, the happy spot) Anatomy of a bus map There was an interesting hodge-podge of presentations at the Internet User Experience conference this morning. I suppose, relatively speaking, I’m an old-timer in this field…which is to…

  • IUE2009: Field research class

    Today at the Internet User Experience conference I attended a field research class led by Danielle Gobert Cooley. The morning session was lecture and discussion on differences between lab-based research and field research, and some guidelines and tips on doing field research. Then we paired up and went out to observe some employees at Washtenaw…

  • IUE2009: Use Cases and Scenario-Based Design

    Today at IUE2009, I attended an excellent workshop led by Jan Moorman on scenario-based design and use cases. My experience with use cases has been limited to what I’ve read from websites like AListApart.com, some select pages returned from Google searches, and snippets from books like Martin Fowler’s UML book and “Designing the Obvious” by…

  • Next week: IUE2009

    I’ll be at the Internet User Experience 2009 conference in Ann Arbor, MI this week with a crew of coworkers. In addition to the conference itself on Wednesday and Thursday, I’ll attend 2 full-day tutorials: Use Cases in an Agile World Field Research for User Experience Design I’m looking forward to the events, and intend…

  • Fatten me up?

    I was captured. Eva had my right arm and Lila had my left. They were walking me back to my house in St Charles, and they were pretending to be evil witches. “Let’s put him in the dungeon so we can eat him!” schemed Eva. “You’re going to fatten me up before you eat me?”…

  • Lila’s whiteboard art: EVA

  • DSS.MIL is not to be trusted

    It’s funny that the Defense Security Service (Provides security services to the Department of Defense and defense contractors. Mostly counter-espionage and physical security tasks.) homepage triggers an SSL certificate error. Is that some sort of first lesson: TRUST NO ONE! Heh.

  • “God is so good” rendition by Adam

    My friend Adam posted this to Youtube. Nice job Adam.

  • First pistol practice of the season!

    I made it to the range today! The afternoon was sunny and seemed like it was in the high 30s. My fingers were stiff on the cold pistol, but the lighting was beautiful and the wind was light. This was the first time I’ve shot at the Saginaw Field & Stream club. It has an…