Tag: usability

Dopeology

At last! My personal project to develop a web application on doping in pro cycling is finally released after a year’s hard work.

Originally published: 12 Oct 2011 in Information design

Information architecture: labelling for websites

Labelling content for websites is not as easy as it looks. Every label should be the product of a process.

Originally published: 19 Oct 2010 in Information design

Can Google Mini help you find intranet content easily? Search me…

Problems aplenty getting to grips with the search facilities provided by Google’s Mini appliance.

Originally published: 13 Oct 2010 in Technical

Is there anybody out there?

Getting to know the website audience of a content-driven, public sector information resource.

Originally published: 19 Sep 2010 in Information design

Perception and assumption in warning signs

An information design perspective on the use and effect of warning signs used in hunting areas.

Originally published: 23 Nov 2009 in Information design

Usability testing with web prototypes: an overview

An illustrated overview of usability testing with onscreen or paper prototypes. Try out ideas before investing resources!

Originally published: 28 May 2009 in Information design

RUP for user experience professionals

RUP may answer a lot of organisational issues but what’s in it for User Experience professionals?

Originally published: 13 Apr 2009 in Technical

Belgium Usability Day

I attended an event marking the Belgian contribution to World Usability Day 2008.

Originally published: 14 Nov 2008 in Technical

At User Experience 2005

Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Jakob Nielsen.

Originally published: 18 Nov 2005 in Technology

Skinning Jakob Nielsen

Deadpan at the prospect of attending a Jakob Nielsen training event.

Originally published: 1 Sep 2005 in Technology

Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …

Luxembourg

A too-quiet Sunday in the expensive city of banking.

  • Originally published: 21 Sep 2009 in Europe

French exchange

Blast from the past: on the trail of a 1992 school French exchange trip to Arras.

  • Originally published: 3 May 2009 in Europe

The Lion roared

Covers bands will always be judged on the quality of their renditions. Fortunately these are sometimes good.

  • Originally published: 27 Oct 2007 in Concerts

Milan

Think of Italy and the Pisan belltowers and Roman arenas of our mind aren’t usually capped with snow. It’s February and this is Milan!

  • Originally published: 11 Feb 2010 in Europe

Lisbon

Like the explorers in their carracks and caravels, Lisbon’s status as hub of the whole world has long since set sail, but there’s still much to discover here.

  • Originally published: 13 Jun 2011 in Europe

Who you gonna call?

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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.

I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.

I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.

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Dopeology.org

Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.

I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.

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