Know those guidelines for being productive that consist of "only" 20 or more rules? Keeping to-do lists, keeping anti-to-do lists, writing journals, reflecting on your day, the 50/10 rule etc. pp. ... Forget about them! Here is what I did to finish two CHI papers in the course of one weekend: Get rid of distractions: I put my… Continue reading Über-Productivity in Just Three Steps
Month: October 2014
What is ›Usability‹?
Earlier this year, I submitted a research paper about a concept called usability-based split testing1 to a web engineering conference (Speicher et al., 2014). My evaluation involved a questionnaire that asked for ratings of different usability aspects—such as informativeness, readability etc.—of web interfaces. So obviously, I use the word “usability” in that paper a lot;… Continue reading What is ›Usability‹?
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 