Author: bernard
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DIY Mobile Usabilty Testing talk Paris Web 2016
In 2016, Belén Barros Pena & I did a talk at the great Paris Web conference about our Do-It-Yourself Mobile Usability Testing project. We’ve done it many times before. Here’s the video. The tech and the tools may be updated and it’s 3 years old but 80-90% of the reasoning, methods and approacehs are still…
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Reading list & useful things I found for 19-25 August
Accessibility We need to talk about dyslexia at work; a nice blogpost about dyslexia in the work place and how to improve support for people who live and work with dyslexia. Brexit User Research A beginners guide to getting into user research; A ma-hoosive list of resources (in the form of a Notion.so note) about…
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Reading list & useful things I found for 12-18 August
Interesting things to read The Diversity Redemption Do you write a blog? Do you have opinions about things? If so, your “honest opinion” is defined by legislation (in the UK). You are not a brand; Thank God someone finally said it. Quotes Ashley Fowler from @USABLE_tools reiterated during “Designing for extreme risks” workshop that a…
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UK Web accessibility after Brexit?
I saw a message today to a mailing list (essentially) asking – what impact does Brexit have on the accessibility of UK websites – specifically UK government (anything that ends in .gov.uk). A worrying, but understandable question. The answer came that websites will still have to comply with the: UK Equality Act Public Sector Bodies…
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My portable research kit
(Post is in draft. This is the beginning. Check back later..) Everyone wants to build a usability research lab. You don’t always need one. You can do a lot with some low cost equipment. Building a research lab I’ve built small-scale labs when I worked in government. They are not a build and forget type…
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Doing ethical research with vulnerable users
(This post has been sitting in draft for a few months. Today I was tagged in a discussion about researching with vulnerable/distressed people and I just pressed publish. The post started out as an email I sent to the UK GDS User Research mailing list on the topic of doing user research with vulnerable people.)…
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Fixing fn button controls on your POP_OS laptop post-update 18.10
I’ve been using my XPS 13 developer machine more and more over the past few months after recently installing POP_OS (Ubuntu based with a very nice and usable Gnome 3 theme). Last week I updated to POP_OS 18.10, which brought lots of changes. One of those unexpected changes was the function (F buttons) stopped controlling…
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ACM – Y U NO ♥ UX PPL?
(This is an open letter to The Association of Computer Machinery) Dear ACM Events team, This is a light-hearted constructive criticism of your events sign-up form. It is meant to be helpful. In a previous life I was an engineer but I went to the light side and became a Human-Computer Interaction professional. My profession…
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Enabling remote desktop acces to POP_OS from Mac OS
I’ve recently installed POP_OS on my Dell XPS laptop. I want to use it to continue experimenting with open source Design applications, and other things. I want to get remote desktop access, so I can securely access it remotely over the same network. To do this I’ll need two things: to setup an SSH tunnel…