ellen kanner http://www.ellenkanner.com Art Made. Life Captured. Webs Woven. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:27:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Moving on and Back Echinacea has played it's part in my preventative measures with cold and flu.

]]> http://www.ellenkanner.com/?p=184 Usability is Not an Afterthought How surprised was I to hear this from a colleague recently who heads up an IT division.

“Usability is an afterthought, if we have time.”

In fact it had my head spinning, so much that I felt a little sick.

Unfortunately many of the software products used by higher education institutions obviously lack the involvement of a [...]

]]> http://www.ellenkanner.com/?p=292 First Impressions with the iPad I bought an iPad this week, about 4 days after they came out on the market. By belief, I am not an early adopter of technology, just don’t feel enough of the bugs have been worked out. I’m a user experience and interface designer, so am intrigued as well to visit the user experience [...]

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