The new Quest Student Information System update is no more than atrocious, especially when it took them years to plan for this change. Just from this first page after signing in, I already have issues with it. Page title: “Campus-facing registry content” – whatever that means. Content title: “Heng-Chun’s Student Center” – there exists something [...]

The Project IRIS team went out to the OCE Discovery conference on Monday and Tuesday to check out some of the innovations taking place right here in Ontario as well as taking away from valuable information from the conference presentations. We met a lot of interesting people at the conference and learned about their organizations’ [...]

This morning, I received an unexpectedly high number of feedback emails on my phone after I got out of my class in RCH. I thought, “Well, looks like the LJ community really liked it.” I only found out after I got home (and after my nap) from checking my uwlive.ca email that I was mentioned [...]

My friend was over earlier this morning to pick up some stuff and we started talking about the poor UI in your typical financial and business applications (even the very thoroughly researched Bloomberg terminal). There so much innovations yet to be done in these applications, and it’s much easier to get people to pay up [...]

These are the slides from Joe Lamantia’s closing talk at the Italian IA Summit. This presentation explores some ideas that are not in the traditional user experience business models. I only got a quick skim through the presentation slides but it looked pretty interesting. Broad cultural, technological, and economic shifts are rapidly erasing the distinctions [...]

So by total accident, I discovered this new hot key in Windows Vista that lets you quickly launch applications from your quick launch toolbar. All you have to do is press Windows + #, where # is the position of the item that you want to launch. So if you press Windows 1, it will [...]