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Re: Amazing Pie

Miss K / Kei Mars — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:42:25 -0000

Interesting. That seems to offer good affordance while removing the friction of the two level system we have now. Maybe you should apply for the UI Architect job they're advertising :)

I too hope that the plans to open up the UI will lead to us being able to pimp the client like this

Re: Lang.NET 2006 | Baba Sucks

Miss K / Kei Mars — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 03:46:37 -0000

neat summary baba, thanks

Re: Profile Blogging!

Miss K / Kei Mars — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:35:06 -0000

OMG I want one!!! I suppose it only works in WordPress. Kx

Re: Stealin’ Yo Shit | Baba Sucks

Miss K / Kei Mars — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:34:43 -0000

> Nothing will prevent copying Amen

Re: Much ado about YouTube

Miss K / Kei Mars — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:16:28 -0000

Like a lot of social things YouTube's greatest asset is the community and the huge volume of content they provide. But it is a fugly website, I agree, incosnsistently designed, frustrating to use, badly cached and often borked. Bit like MySpace, which still I feel obliged to use as a musician.

Have you seen this? http://tubularapp.com/blog/ It looks very interesting (I know you don't have a Mac) but it's an attempt to impose a different UI layer on the YouTube content.

Re: The best advice I can give you today

Miss K / Kei Mars — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:40:53 -0000

How else can one live without regret.

Happy for your happiness Torley
xx

darn. Now you made me cross post :p

Re: The best advice I can give you today

Miss K / Kei Mars — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:42:12 -0000

> Now you made me cross post :p

Better than cross dressing I suppose. Or is it??

Hmm. Gravatar.com still borked

Re: No Life? Second Life!

Miss K / Kei Mars — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:24:29 -0000

He kinda looks like he's on crack as well...

Re: Fun with Dynamic Reflections

Miss K / Kei Mars — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:00:44 -0000

This is welcome news. Now I can have a grimy mirror in the washroom of my scuzzy rock bar.

Re: Fun with Dynamic Reflections

Miss K / Kei Mars — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:05:40 -0000

> Anaglyphs rock

Like this?

http://www.nmc.org/sl/2007/01/30/3d-viewer/

Re: Sculpties and dolphins — what's the connection?

Miss K / Kei Mars — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:10:14 -0000

There seems to be no porpoise to it...

See what I did there..? :p

Re: A couple of the best mashups I've ever heard

Miss K / Kei Mars — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:14:24 -0000

One of my favourite podcasts is the Radio Clash podcast. Some real mashup treats unearthed weekly by the very amusing Tim, from my very own London Town.

http://www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/subscribe-t...

Re: Usability consultants have golden opportunities in Second Life

Miss K / Kei Mars — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:23:02 -0000

This is a massively important point (or series of points) and a massive challenge for virtual worlds where the marriage of game and software user interfaces combined with mashable user generated content leads to the "fruit salad" effect of features and content of all shapes and sizes conflicting to destroy the user experience.

This will become ever more crucial as open transport protocols enable transit between different VWs and users will have to navigate between different UIs and display layers.

Add to this accessibility which truly is a lost horizon in this field and we have, yes, a potential goldmine for usability and accessibility experts.

But before we drown under a deluge of overcharging and over here consultants auditing us to death, let's remember two important points:

1. Usability is rooted in standards and standards should be rooted in common sense. The first victory will be the establishment of Metaverse usability standards - good start in this post Torley!

2. Usability is in itself an accessibility issue. usability as ultimately an accessibility issue – bad usability makes a product inaccessible to even normally abled users and leads to a “useless” human experience. We’ve all been there.

Bearing these two points in mind and reacting intelligently to them will create a virtuous circle of good practice along a standards model, much like what's gradually happened on the web in the last 10 years. Fingers crossed!

Thanks for this post Torley and *wave* we never talk no more

Kei x