Introducing UIE Brain Sparks

by Joshua Porter  |   August 12th, 2005  |  shortlink: http://bokardo.com/p/175

Brain Sparks is a blog that I’ve set up for UIE, where I work. It’s chock-full of little insights into the usability research and writing that we do. It’s also a place for conversation: we’ve turned on comments and appreciate any and all of them.

Jared Spool, Christine Perfetti, and I are the principal bloggers. We’ll be working hard to keep the site relevant and useful. So, if you’re looking for a conversation about how to create better designed, usable web sites, check out Brain Sparks.

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1.  Shep 10:52am, Fri 12th, 2005

Just wondering – will you keep writing here and if so, what will be the difference between the 2? UIE specific stuff vs. your own ‘non UIE sanctioned’ thoughts/opinions?

2.  Josh 11:11am, Fri 12th, 2005

Good question, Shep. Put simply, Bokardo and Brain Sparks are two completely separate blogs.

I’ll use Bokardo to continue to investigate Web 2.0 interface topics at any stage of development. For example, I’ll write things like Interface Remixers will Pay for Privilege of APIs. This post is mostly conjecture, my newly formed ideas about something that may or may not happen but is, I believe, still very relevant to the Web 2.0 theme and interface designers.

Brain Sparks is written by 3 of us at UIE who do very specialized research in web usability and similar subjects. What you’ll find there is more practical information dealing with our company’s approach to web usability (UIE has been around since 1988), most likely our latest thinking on the challenges that design teams face. We talk to a lot of design teams, and we’re trying to share the knowledge they’ve gained with others in similar situations.

Also, let me make a distinction about affiliation. My writing on bokardo reflects my personal opinion and research only. It is in no way affiliated with UIE nor does it necessarily reflect the opinions or views of my fellow colleagues. I’m sure we’ll link back and forth, but that’s only in those cases where the topics we talk about overlap.

In other words, don’t hold what I say on bokardo against Jared or Christine. :)