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How To Hack Meetings: Using UX and Collaborative Techniques to Make Meetings More Productive
Slide at Shopify (Credit: spydergrrl) I work on an enterprise project with a large constantly-changing project team. People come in and out of the team regularly, which means that we are very reliant on our ability to adapt and work…
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Hacking Old Tech: Breathing New Life Into Obsolete Devices
By perfectska04, GNOME icon artists via Wikimedia Commons One part of our basement used to be a tech graveyard. If you rummaged around, you might stumble upon some of my favourite pieces: My old 1994 Asus laptop with 2MB (megabytes!!)…
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Flashback: That Time I Was an Online News Anchor (Way Before YouTube)
Warning: Flashback moment ahead I used to produce (and read!) online news when I worked for a tiny little consulting firm in 1998-1999. We were a video conferencing consulting firm, which means I spent most of my time learning video…
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The Google Glass “Failure”: Why Words Are Important in Innovation
By Danlev (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], Wikimedia Commons By now, you’ve probably heard that Google has shut down the Google Glass Explorer program. And chances are, you’re hearing people describe it as a failure. This is why we can’t…
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Beyond “Pages”: Is It Time To Rethink Our Mental Model of the Web?
One guarantee of working on the web is that you will inevitably be in a conversation about a web site and people will talk about “web pages.” Which makes sense: the Web has been around for a couple of decades…
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Accessibility In Social Media: 15 + 4 Things You Can Do (Full Presentation Notes)
Credit: The people from the Tango! project, via Wikimedia Commons Last week, I presented at Public Sector Social Media, a conference directed to Government employees and consultants whose work touches on the social media-sphere. I gave a talk on Social…
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The 4 Things I Learned About Technology Adoption by Being an Early Blogger
Spydergrrl on the Web turned 6 last week. This hasn’t been my only blog, but it is the one with the most staying power. As I was approaching this anniversary, I did a bit of reflection and realized that the…
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The ONLY Way To Get Girls into STEM (Boys Too!)
Three times in one weekend, I was asked if I was involved in female-oriented and girl-specific tech programs. And it bugged the hell out of me. I love any initiative that has the potential to interest people in science, technology,…
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What the %$*& is UX? (video)
I’ve got UX (user experience) on the brain for a whole lot of reasons: first of all, I’m doing a whole lot of it at work (in fact, I’m pretty sure that I might get banned from saying “personas” any…
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