On January 23, 2010 I attended UX Barcamp DC and presented on the topic of measuring desirability.

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Tags: [desirability, usability, ux, uxd, user_experience, Partial-Recall]

An inspiring ad in today’s New York Times.

Click play and see how the lines between old media (NYTimes ‘paper’ style view of front page) and new mix together beautifully.

In case the ad moves, I tried to do a screen capture of it, but the voice is lost. Just focus on the ad and the paper’s headline.

Tags: [Apple, Leopard, Vista, NYTimes, advertisement, Partial Recall]

Interesting music video by The Longcut incorporates infographics quite nicely.

Hat tip to Jason Kottke

Tags: [infographics, Kottke, Longcut, music, Partial Recall]

I had a very unique yet welcome happening the other day. My namesake, “Rob Fay” – a 16 year old living in Nottingham, England, decided to contact me. I had “Googled” my own name before to see if there were other “Rob Fays,” but I never decided to track them down. Well, I’m delighted that Rob contacted me.

Today I decided to check out his site and found an interesting find. I’m surprised I hadn’t stumbled across it sooner, but I believe it can inspire a company such as my own since we leverage whiteboard technologies with our learning curriculum. Check it out.

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Tags: [k12, MIT, whiteboard, smartboard, educational technology, education, Partial Recall]

The Library of Congress has posted its webcast of Peter Morville’s July 20th talk on Ambient Findability. You can view the 45 minute webcast here.

Tags: [Ambient Findability, Peter Morville, findability, usability, information architecture, Library of Congress, video, webcast]

A hilarious tale is unfolding in pixels over at the iconfactory. [hat tip to SimpleBits]. Talk about communicating without words. Simply.Brilliant.

Tags: [iconfactory, quicktime, movie, silent film, funny, web redesign, web design]

Although a majority of my career has been spent working as a contractor for the federal government, I’m now working for a company in the e-learning industry. Therefore, I’ve begun to follow technology issues as it relates to education.

Mark Wagner of the EdTechLife blog linked this interesting video [Quicktime movie] about how educators can incorporate games to facilitate learning. He created a webcast about video games in education, with interviews of Henry Jenkins, James Paul Gee, Clark Aldrich…

Gaming is getting much more traction in the education arena. There are some fantastic ways that students can learn while also having some fun. Hopefully this video will encourage you to see the possibilities.

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Tags: [Mark Wagner, EdTechLife, educational technology, video game, game, education]