Discussions and Taboos: Tara Lynn and body image

A Personal response to Stephanie’s article about a very popular albeit controversial photo/story on Facebook (21000 likes so far) related to weight, body image, whales, mermaids and the french Model Tara Lynn:  http://ichooselove.com/in-the-face-of-real-beauty/

Candy Candy – Anime Queen and language teacher

Thought I would write a little about Candy Candy. Candy Candy was originally drawn as a Manga series (cartoon book in black and white) in Japan. It was then turned in anime (coloured cartoons in Japan). It was translated into Italian, Spanish and French.

Not a good day for the human race….

Reflections on the tenth anniversay of 9/11

I guess we will all be reliving some memories over the next day or so.

Funny how 9/11 feels so personal to many of us … I guess it was the first terrible event I experienced LIVE via the media. On my own as a new mum with a 1 year old it was like watching the world fall apart…

Thanks

Date: 2 September 2011 09:31:42 GMT+01:00

To: steve@apple.com

From: Lisa Tweedie

Subject: Thanks

Dear Mr Jobs

I’ve never written to someone changing job before but when I heard of your resignation as CEO of Apple I felt very moved.

I wanted to thank you personally for adding inspiration upon inspiration to my life since I was an 18 year old in the late 80′s…

RIP Steve Jobs

RIP Mr Jobs … you were an inspiration … the Leonardo of our time. The impact of some of your ideas have yet to be realised. Many of us will try to follow in your footsteps and bring transformative technology in manageable, positive and usable ways into peoples lives. It is the ones that you have inspired that will be your lasting legacy

You will be sadly missed by my family, my community and my industry. Hope your next adventure is equally wonderous.

Wishing lots of strength to Steve’s family and friends at this difficult time….

Creating employment opportunities for flexible working in UX.

by Thomas Hawk (distributed under a creative commons licence)

I had a very active period earlier in the year where I tried to train up a number of fellow parents to support me with my UX contracts (I had 9 on the go at one point). It didn’t work for lots of reasons … probably tried to do it too quickly for one thing.

Why did I want to train people up? Partly to have some local people to thrash issues out with and this part of it worked really well. Remote work can be a lonely business. Partly because I would love to bring some work opportunities to this sector of the community (I can talk about this for hours see the blog link below!).

Crowdsourcing Design – can competitions be made to work?

Photo by Thomas Hawk (Creative Commons Licence)

One of my former clients used Crowdspring (a design competion site) to source their graphic design and yes it is a terrible way to implement a design. In fact I had to withdraw from the project I was so appalled at the exploitation and poor end result in design terms – a huge a waste of resources.

However I also participate on Conceptfeedback – a reviewing website where we review each others work pretty much for free.

UX Resources

This my library of links and recommendations … planning to grow this over time.

Wireframing

Simply the best - www.balsamiq.com

Thesis Acknowledgements

Firstly I would like to express my gratitude to Bob Spence, who has been an excellent supervisor, and has supported me in every way through the last three years. He has been a real inspiration for taking a creative and innovative approach to HCI problems.

Storyboard Project: Challenge No. 2

Ok so not much response to challenge number 1 but early days (-: My current plan is to publish the stories via slideshare under a creative commons licence. Please let me know if you have any advice on this one!

So challenge number two is to illustrate the following stories: