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Archive for March, 2007

26 Mar, 2007

Lessons from foodnetwork.com

Posted by: linoleumjet In: user experience

I’m watching an episode of Good Eats with the Golus/Graham fam, and we just saw a particularly lovely recipe for a salmon and ramen dish. I went to the Food Network site, www.foodnetwork.com, to find the recipe.
1. Ran a search for “alton brown ramen recipe” and the browser crashed
2. Went back to the site and […]

originally posted to linoleumjet.com
From Presentation Zen’s review of Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind:
To many business people, design is something you spread on the surface, it’s like icing on a cake. It’s nice, but not mission-critical. But this is not design to me, this is more akin to “decoration.” Decoration, for better or worse, is […]

23 Mar, 2007

How to thank survey responders

Posted by: linoleumjet In: user experience

(originally posted to linoleumjet.com)
As a rule I help out fellow web citizens by responding to redesign or usability survey requests. (I know that I’ve benefited from user feedback over the years, and I’m happy to reciprocate.) The MBTA.com folks sent this very nice note as a thank you to survey participants; I think this is […]

22 Mar, 2007

Using flickr to teach art history

Posted by: linoleumjet In: education

(originally posted to linoleumjet.com)

Originally uploaded by beth h..
A colleague recently shared this wonderfully creative and effective example of using flickr as a teaching tool.
The instructor put notes directly on the image, and the students provided comments of their own. The discussion is mediated by, rather than peripheral to, the image.
I’m thinking about about […]

20 Mar, 2007

welcome, welcome

Posted by: linoleumjet In: user experience

As we smash the champagne bottle on the side of the CPU, welcome! No rabbits with pancakes on their heads here, unfortunately, but hopefully this will be an interesting project for me and my friends.
(Does the world need a new blog? Eh, probably not. The world doesn’t need a lot of things.)
This weblog is intended […]


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Welcome. I'm Juliette Melton, a San Francisco resident, user experience researcher, and infrequent blogger. This is where I share interesting examples of user experiences that I come across and where I post updates on my various projects. See linoleumjet.com for my more photo-related postings.