Although I have taken on several higher-profile volunteer roles in my field over the past several years, it still freaks me out when someone actually notices something I’ve done.
So imagine my surprise when I discovered this blog entry while ego-surfing on Google.
It’s about a talk I gave at a meeting of the Vancouver User Experience group, VanUE.
What I found interesting about the entry – or more accurately, what I found interesting about my reaction to the blog entry – was that although it was mostly positive and complementary, I found myself obsessing over the sole negative comment. (“It would have been interesting to hear more about the team dynamics that emerge when you take a very business-centric process model such as Six-Sigma and combine this with UCD.”)
I guess I need to develop a thicker skin if I’m going to continue to blogitate and raise my profile wihin my field.
I was looking up a colleague’s email address using my new favorite way – plug their name and “usability” into Google.
The results page had a link to something called ““Interaction-Design.org“…so of course I followed the link. And discovered the proverbial treasure trove.
Now I’ve never claimed to be on the bleeding edge of my field. But my first thought was embarrassment mixed with chagrin, as in “ohmigod, how come I never heard of this before” followed closely by “am I the last UCD hack to have heard of interaction-design.org?”
Anyway, check it out. YMMV, but you’ll probably be glad it’s in your bookmarks folder.
Anybody else out there using it? (Which begs the larger question: anybody out there actually reading this blog?”)
Have you used HCIBib.org? You should. It’s chock full of references for the aspiring – and the experienced – HCI, UCD, and/or usability practitioner.
Props to Gary Perlman and crew for maintaining this resource.
