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UPA Presenation: Future of HCI: Intelligent User Interfaces as Agents of Change

I was fortunate enough to be invited by the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) to come and talk at their 2nd anniversary party. alongside the excellent Cameron Adams who talked about the design of Google Wave.
It was a fantastic event, with an amazing turn out, so thanks to all involved in organising it.
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Launch of ‘The Punch’

Last week saw the launch of a project I’ve been working on called “The Punch”.  It was a great project to work on with some really talented people.

The Punch is an Australian opinion-driven news and current affairs site, that aims to engage its audience in discussion on the topics of the day.  I won’t dwell [...]

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The new digital ethnographer’s toolkit: capturing the participant’s lifestream

I’m pleased to say that my proposed presentation for UX Australia 09 has been accepted.  It looks like this is going to be any exciting conference and I look forward to making my maiden trip to Canberra.   The speaker lineup looks great and good to see fellow NDM UX USiT team members Patrick Kennedy and [...]

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Redesign of news.com.au

This weekend saw the relaunch of the new news.com.au.

This is a project we’ve been working on for quite some time.  I’m really proud of the way it’s turned out, and it introduces a whole raft of new features not seen on any Australian media site before. These include:

Personalisation through drag’n’drop
Cookie based Personalisation, so no [...]

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The Big Move: Melbourne to Sydney

After 2 fantastic years in Melbourne, it is with great sadness that I leave that amazing city and move on. A brilliant job opportunity at News Digital Media arose in Sydney that I just couldn’t resist. So, after a stressful few weeks of packing and saying my goodbyes, I got in the car [...]

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