A few notes on OZ IA 2009

Posted in News on October 6th, 2009 - No comments

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I’ve just returned from an engaging 2 days at OZ IA 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Firstly I’d like to thank Eric Scheid for organising the whole thing and being a warm host and having a high standard for the conference catering. Yum. :)

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Cineworld – new site: Part two

Posted in Reviews,User Experience on July 5th, 2009 - No comments

It’s long overdue, I know – but here’s part two of the cineworld site review. My attention goes to the cinema listings page, which is another area I frequent on a weekly basis. Sometimes I arrive at the page with a film in mind that I want to see and sometimes I am looking for all films showing at a particular start time. It’s the latter mindset which makes this page frustrating to use – I want to scan films starting at 18:30 for example – I have the annoying task of reading through each film for this time and then have to remember when it starts (not to mention the cognitive noise in my head deciding if I like the film or not).

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