Adventures with impersonal recruitment agents: No, "Hello Bernard, how are you?". "No, nice to meet you." Opening line: "Good afternoon, Your profile looks well aligned to some requirements I have." Translates to: "You look like…
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Details Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 Room: Patio Naranjos Duration: 1 hour Description (From the IFF Schedule) “This meetup brings together individuals that identify as introverts. Meetups are one hour informal events focused on…
Read the PostInternet Freedom Festival 2018 – Introverts meetup
One of the main annoyances with my new Ubuntu machine is not so much the fault of Ubuntu, or the Dell hardware – but the lack of a decent pointing device. As much as I…
Read the PostUsing Apple Magic mouse with Ubuntu sometimes causes unwanted behaviours
I’m trying to extract a RAR file (a type of compressed file) on my new Ubuntu machine. I use the built-in archive manager application and keep getting this error message: …
As I wrote before, I’m conducting an experiment of working with only Open Source software in my day-to-day User Centred Design profession. One of the good things with OS X software was the abundance of…
Anyone working in, or following digital services in (any) government, is probably aware of the use of Slack 1)https://www.slack.com/ as an ephemeral instant messaging service by people working in digital services. If they’re aware of…
Hello, I’m Bernard I’m a user centred designer. I work mainly as a user researcher and interaction designer. In my day job, I work in a UK government department. I spend my days mostly doing:…
Read the PostThe Open Sourced User Centred Designer – Introduction
Hi everyone! Thank very much for your time yesterday. I really enjoyed visiting City Uni again. I mentioned a lot of different websites and links. If anyone wanted to read more about those thing, here…
While we were travelling around in India earlier this year, I saw lots of interesting, fascinating, curious, and worrying things. At the door of a hotel we were staying in in one city, I saw…
Read the PostSeen in India: Biometric staff tracking systems
Paris Web 2016 I attended Paris Web 2016 last week (more on that later) where Belén Barros Pena and I spoke about our DIY Mobile Usability Testing project. Léonie Watson and Charles McCathieNevile both working…