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Sunset–Nielsen Park–Sydney

September 17th, 2011

My aunt Necy used to tell me that the sunset is one of the most beautiful events in the world, it happens everyday for free and most of us take it for granted.

Today I enjoyed and remembered her at Nielsen Park in Sydney.

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More photos here

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Bone or Wood? Which one is harder?

August 28th, 2011

Yesterday (Sunday) I accidentally/on-purpose tripped/kicked/ran-into my bed… well, it’s complicated, not even I understand properly how it happened… But, long story short: I broke my toe.

It’s the fourth time I break a bone in my life. It’s always the same thing. It gets very numb and everyone around me says:
“You didn’t break anything, otherwise you’d be crying… Blah Blah Blah…”

A couple of hours later:

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I went to St Vincent’s Hospital close to my apartment and was very well treated:

  • X-Ray to confirm it was broken
  • Tons of painkillers
  • Crutches
  • Ice
  • Keep foot elevated, above heart level

I broke the proximal phalanx on the right toe, also called hallux.

Left foot below is a normal one from the internet. The right one is mine.

xray-foot

Now I have to learn how to use crutches and work from home.

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Ignite Sydney 7

July 28th, 2011

I got really excited about Ignite after I saw my friend Jason Yip presenting. The format is quite challenging: 5 minutes and 20 slides. Enough of procrastination…  I finally decided to submit a proposal for the upcoming Ignite Sydney 7 (Oct 11th 2011)

One section of the proposal says: “Convince us, why the Ignite Sydney audience will want to hear from you”. So I decided to write this post… Smile

Let’s start with a bit of a summary of who I am… here

Also, I’m extremely passionate about the topic: Human Behaviour and Happiness

Links for some of my recent presentations:

 

With the ignite value of keeping it short and simple, that’s it.

Congratulations to the organisers for this amazing event and… Fingers crossed Winking smile

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Help your users by having a consistent UI

June 19th, 2009

I was filling a form the other day and I found myself in the position of a user of an “interface”. It was a paper form, though. But the concept of a paper user interface is similar to a softare UI.

This was the form:

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When I answer the first question as “No” my brain learns and stores the information that if I want to answer question I have to check the box on the left hand side of the label. Therefore:

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Then, suddenly I get to the next question and I want to answer No again… And… This is what happens:

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The interface changed. For this question, the box is in the right hand side of the label… I ended up answering it wrong.

In summary, interfaces need to be consistent.

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