Kathy Sierra: Help Your Users Become Kick Ass

Awesome presentation by Kathy Sierra on how to to truly concentrate on your users, helping them achieve their goals, become passionate, and more intelligent. Wonderful presentation:

http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/kathy-sierra/

Filed under: Design, UX , kathy sierra, user experience

2008 Election

I just came back from the polls and am feeling a high! I walked over to the polling place which was a block from my house, waited in line for a total of 5 minutes. It took me 5 minutes to vote and then I was done, wohoo!

I did research all the issues and candidates so here is how I voted:

President: Obama/Biden
Democrat for the local stuff
Prop 1A – Yes
Prop 2 -Yes
Prop 3 – Yes
Prop 4 – HELL NO
Prop 5 – Yes (was sort of back and forth on this one, but decided to go with it)
Prop 6 – No
Prop 7 – No
Prop 8 – HELL NO NO NO NO NO NO!
Prop 9 – No
Prop 10 – No
Prop 11 – No
Prop 12 – Yes

I got a “I Voted” sticker which I am wearing proudly at the moment. I also thought that the usability of the ballots in California was much better than in Indiana. I think Indiana had a form of butterfly ballots which were really confusing. Here they have a nice booklet where everything lines up (yes I am a total geek for noticing and proud of it).

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