Archive for January, 2005

Bad car karma

Monday, January 24th, 2005

We had a lovely snowstorm this past weekend. Somehow we were lucky (my upstairs neighbor and my sister and I) - our cars were dusted with just a bit of fluffy snow, whereas our next door neighbors (who we share a driveway with) and our landlords (the cars in the background of the picture) […]

My first user test!

Friday, January 14th, 2005

On Wednesday, I conducted my very first ever user test! I got a lot of help from a woman in our office, who works for our parent/sister company, who is actually a trained usability professional (unlike me).

We had six users, who responded to a flyer I posted around our office building. Only three […]

Google Adwords

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

I’m very impressed with Google Adwords. They make it so easy for anyone to instantly advertise anything, and how much it costs is entirely up to you!

You see, for my Dad’s birthday, I decided to help him boost traffic to his website by setting him up with Adwords.

The management interface isn’t quite perfect, in […]