I keep being asked to show people all the cool features in Microsoft Word that not many people realise exist or how to take advantage of. Many people struggle with auto generating contents pages, bibliographies and proper page numbering when Word 2007 makes it so easy. I will do a three part series explaining how … Continue reading Using Microsoft Word 2007
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Mixing up qualitative and quantitative data
It upsets me when papers make the effort to do proper usability studies and then misuse the results because they get confused by qualitative and quantitative data. As nicely explained in my HCI notes, quantitative data has a "structure of integers or real numbers, e.g.number of errors (discrete) or time to complete task (continuous)", whilst qualitative data is essentially everything … Continue reading Mixing up qualitative and quantitative data
Top 10 usability crimes and text visualization
I found a really good article called the 10 usability crimes you really shouldn't commit and I have updated the website according to adhere to some of the principles - mainly making the website logo now a link to the home page and indicating the active form field for comments below. I didn't actually realise you could … Continue reading Top 10 usability crimes and text visualization
8 Favourite iPod Touch apps
1. BBC Reader (free)This app downloads and caches the latest headlines from the BBC website from three categories (I have world news, UK and Entertainment for example). What's great for iPod Touch users is that you can download the news when you have internet and read the articles later when you don't. When you click on … Continue reading 8 Favourite iPod Touch apps
New Laptop
Yesterday I bought my first proper laptop. I have had 2 laptops in the past, one I got on eBay for £90 that ran Windows 98, came with 64MB of RAM and weighed 6 kg, for the purposes of playing DOS games when I was travelling on the train to and from London. It was … Continue reading New Laptop
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