Be a Usability Participant - Get $75 Gift Card from Boston Pizza
Posted on April 21, 2009
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I’m recruiting some more great volunteers to help Boston Pizza make sure that their website is awesome for our launch. In return - we’re giving you a 75$ Gift certificate valid for any Boston Pizza.
We are looking for a 10 people to participate in a study geared towards refining the new design of our website. The study generally takes approximately 90 minutes where a facilitator will walk you through a number of tasks on a proposed site design.
I am currently looking for participants from all provinces accross Canada. We are looking for participants of any level computer knowledge. Even if you are not available but you know a friend who is - please pass this along.
As a target user, you are in the best position to tell us whether the design and content organization makes it easy to use our site. As a thank you we will be offering selected participants $75 Boston Pizza Gift Cards.
If you are willing and able to participate on Monday May 4, 2009 or Wednesday May 6, 2009, please reply to
Alicia Harper at harpera@bostonpizza.com with your contact details and the best time to reach
you. I will need to confirm a few details to ensure that we have a number of different types of participants.
For the testing you a not required to go anywere, all testing can be done from yourhome on your own computer. However if you are in the Lower Mainland - we do ask you come into our testing office.
Look forward to hearing from you.
A long time coming: Northern Voice 2009
Posted on March 18, 2009
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I know it’s been along time since I have blogged - unfortunately work gets in the way of me actually getting anything done.
I attended Northern Voice on both the Friday and the Saturday. Friday for me was kind of a flop. Although food was much better this year. Way to go Northern Voice! Friday the keynote was excellent with Stewart Butterfield but from there it went downhill. Well at least with the sessions I attempted to attend. The Mobile track was a complete mess. I personally felt they were completely un-organized and that they gave the impression that they didn’t know what they were talking about. Of the Friday the session titled, The Death of Advertising” was probably the best. It ended up being more of discussion on the advertising industry then anything, but I was OK with that. It was nice to see everyone has the same thoughts as I do.
Saturday was filled with some more prepared speakers I felt, which was nice. Overall I enjoyed both the keynotes the best - but I guess that’s why they are keynotes??? Rob’s was by far the funniest but Nora’s was excellent as well.
Sorry I didn’t get into details on each session - right now I am sitting in some pub in Mississauga waiting to go the airport to return home and don’t have my notes with me.
If anyone wants more detail - send me an email and I’ll fill you in.
Mobify me at Interaction 09
Posted on February 23, 2009
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If you read my blog at all you’ll know that I attended Interaction 09 here in Vancouver. One of the presenters was a local company mobify.me. They mentioned a term that I greatly respected. The statement was it’s not the “Mobile Web” like everyone said but it’s the “Web on Mobile” They made a great point it’s not like there are two internets. There is one Internet and we are viewing it on our mobile devices.
Here i
s the breakdown though:
Mobify.me basically offers a web-based CMS system that can set up a mobile website for you. In this post. I’ll step you through the process that I went thru to MOBIFY www.aliciaharper.com
- Create an account - Just enter your email and agree to the terms of service. You’ll then get a activation email. Click the link, enter the old password from the email and then enter a new password.
- Add a site
- Select the elements you would like to include with your mobile site
- Add design elements to your mobile site
- Deploy - upload your mobile site.
I tested mine on both Blackberry and Iphone. They seem to work very nicely - although I haven’t added much design around them.
Try your site today!