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Tweet archives of #OGW11, #a11ysea, #govcamp & #accessu

July 18, 2011 at 2:01 pm · Tags: #a11ysea, #accessu, #govcamp, #OGW11

I just had a lovely month off with my family, before that I had a very active few weeks of conferences and unconferences. I helped convene two events in May: OpenGovWest 2011 and Accessibility Camp Seattle 2011. Around the same time there were two related events that I followed over Twitter: GovCamp 2011 and Access U.

I have compiled archives of tweets from the events which I hope will be useful.

• Open Gov West Tweets grouped by Author in Alphabetical Order
  There are 3145 tweets in this archive. It may take a while to load.
• Open Gov West Tweets grouped by Author in Alphabetical Order with No ReTweets
  There are 1797 tweets in this archive. It may take a while to load.
• Open Gov West Tweets in Reverse Chronological Order
  There are 3145 tweets in this archive. It may take a while to load.
• Open Gov West Tweets in Reverse Chronological Order with No ReTweets
  There are 1797 tweets in this archive. It may take a while to load.
• Accessibility Camp Seattle Tweets grouped by Author in Alphabetical Order
  There are 554 tweets in this archive.
• Accessibility Camp Seattle Tweets grouped by Author in Alphabetical Order with No ReTweets
  There are 420 tweets in this archive.
• Accessibility Camp Seattle Tweets in Reverse Chronological Order
  There are 554 tweets in this archive.
• Accessibility Camp Seattle Tweets in Reverse Chronological Order with No ReTweets
  There are 420 tweets in this archive.
• GovCamp Tweets grouped by Author in Alphabetical Order
  There are 1783 tweets in this archive. It may take a while to load.
• GovCamp Tweets grouped by Author in Alphabetical Order with No ReTweets
  There are 1136 tweets in this archive. It may take a while to load.
• GovCamp Tweets in Reverse Chronological Order
  There are 1783 tweets in this archive. It may take a while to load.
• GovCamp Tweets in Reverse Chronological Order with No ReTweets
  There are 1136 tweets in this archive. It may take a while to load.
• Access U Tweets grouped by Author in Alphabetical Order
  There are 528 tweets in this archive.
• Access U Tweets grouped by Author in Alphabetical Order with No ReTweets
  There are 372 tweets in this archive.
• Access U Tweets in Reverse Chronological Order
  There are 528 tweets in this archive.
• Access U Tweets in Reverse Chronological Order with No ReTweets
  There are 372 tweets in this archive.

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New pictures in my Toy Comic Toolkit

July 2, 2010 at 9:35 am · Tags: comics, comunnication, playmobil, scenarios, ToyComicToolkit, toys

I have taken some new pictures for my Toy Comic Toolkit, some Stock Characters. I needed just some simple people shots where I could:

• Crop or extend the canvas
• Change the background colours
• Combine characters into simple cells

That is the update. It is a simple one, check it out I hope you like them.

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The making of the PowerPivot icon

May 12, 2010 at 11:19 pm · Tags: powerpivot

It was a privilege to be part of the team for Microsoft® PowerPivot, a new product that will change business intelligence by empowering information workers with the ability to conduct ad-hoc data analysis on massive amounts of data.

I’m going to tell you a tiny part of the PowerPivot story which is how the product icon came to be.

A few weeks before the deadline for CTP2 I was asked to create a product icon for PowerPivot — sooner rather than later.

Here is what we thought… in the end :-)

• It needed to look like it could comfortably sit with the Office family of icons. (They changed them for Office 2010 but not too much.)
• We couldn’t really abandon the legacy imagery of SQL Analysis Services, nor would we want to.
• We wanted to portray the idea of the two windows that people would use with PowerPivot and Excel.

But I’m getting a little ahead of myself. First we started with these sketches:

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How could I not repost this – Death Metal Rooster

May 4, 2010 at 1:17 pm ·

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Usability Beyond the Classroom – Jon Bell

February 5, 2010 at 5:15 pm · Tags: design, ignite seattle 8, igniteSeattle, is8, Jon Bell, Usability

Consistency is great.
Predictability is better.

Simple isn’t neccessarily easy
isn’t neccessarily good design.

Testing is vital and unreliable.

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wireframes: Sample sketches exploring alternate ways to access…

November 18, 2009 at 10:44 am ·

wireframes:

Sample sketches exploring alternate ways to access site level commands in SharePoint 2010. (via Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : UX Design Tools & Techniques)

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