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Time Machine Reloaded - November 4th
Hi TimeMachineFriends,we already explored the November 2nd and the 3rd, now it is time for the first day of the conference ...November 4thThe first "real" day of the conference started in an...
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Time Machine Reloaded - November 5th
Hi everyone,let's go back the usual 7 days to re-experience the OOoCon 2009! November 5thFrom our point-of-view, it was "the day" of the conference. It was packed with User Experience related topics...
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Time Machine Reloaded - November 6th
Dear readers,even today we do fight against some time constraints. So let's have a look what happened on ...November 6thThe last day of the conference. It might be good for you that most of the day has...
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Time Machine Reloaded - November 7th
Hi again,the OpenOffice.org Conference is already, but when going 7 days back in time, we are still in Italy.November 7thOriginally, some of us planned to reside some days longer in Orvieto and to...
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Time Machine Reloaded - November 8th
Hi folks! It's the right time to set the time right ... This is the last day of my little Time-Machine-Blog which still covers the adventure OpenOffice.org Conference 2009.November 8thIt seems that the...
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Brainstorm New Ideas: Document Check
Hi everyone,although Renaissance keeps me sometimes rather busy, there are still some ideas to make OpenOffice.org more user friendly, making working with it more efficient and reduce potential...
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Happy New Year!
Also from my side a happy New Year and the best wishes for you and the whole OpenOffice.org community in 2010: health, happiness, success, luck ... and an increased market share for OOo :-)Christoph
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UX meeting in Hamburg, Day One
IntroductionLast week I was on holiday from my day job so I went to Hamburg to spend time on my hobby: OpenOffice.org. I experienced the kind and warm hospitality of Sun, especially the Sun User...
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UX meeting in Hamburg, Day Two
IntroductionThis is my second – and last – posting which covers my two days stay “UX meeting in Hamburg”. In the last posting, I've talked about non-disruptive messages and the common goal for...
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Brainstorm New Ideas: Contextual Undo
Last year I started a small series of brainstorming ideas for improving OpenOffice.org. So maybe you remember the idea Document Check which was targeted to make finalizing documents more easy. Now...
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CC F2F Meeting in HH
The heading seems to be a bit cryptic, isn't it? It is about the "Community Council Face-To-Face Meeting in Hamburg".We, the Community Council, had the chance to meet each other in the real world. Two...
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Back me up, Scotty! Aehm, BackupPC.
What a week. After the Community Council Meeting...I visited my family (for e.g. 70th birthday party),came home (and fought against my Inbox *g*),went to a two days business trip (exhausting and the...
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CeBit2010: The Ribbonator
OpenOffice.orgPhew, last week I attended the CeBit and I was greeted with "Finally, the Ribbonator is there!". Jacqueline, one of the German project co-leads, told me how glad she was that somebody of...
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Happy Easter!
I wish everyone a Happy Easter*! Please enjoy the time with your family and friends ... And maybe it is even more enjoyable (for some) that I will be offline for a few days :-)Cheers,Christoph*) where...
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CHI 2010, Day One
Many people might think that providing a good User Experience doesn't involve any "rocket science". Well, that is true. But - in fact - it requires the work in many other research areas. Many of the...
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CHI 2010, Day Two
Wow, time is running ... As already said, yesterday I attended the course "Storyboarding for designers and design researchers". It was just great. But storyboarding? Isn't that the thing used for...
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CHI 2010, Day Three
The Pictures Post :-) I'm sorry to throw so many pictures at you, but many things happened and I think it is worth looking at it...I noticed that I completely missed to show you where the conference is...
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CHI 2010, Day Four
Finally, the last day of the conference CHI ... so what happened?Conference StuffI attended the course "Developing an Effective Prototyping Strategy". As far as I understood, the term "prototyping"...
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Departure ahead!
I was wrong. Simply wrong. In my last posting, I announced to go back to Germany ... but the "vulcano ash situation" changed the schedule a bit. The flight has been delayed by 6 days ... so I will...
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
You definitively know the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words", don't you?Low Fidelity vs. High FidelityGenerally speaking, the saying is absolutely true! But why do some of our drawings,...
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Informal Meeting "FOSS and Usability"
LinuxTag 2010, anybody?We invite you to take part in an informal meeting to share thoughts, experiences and other information covering the topics Usability and User Experience in the Free Software...
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Budapest, Day 1
Hi everyone!Well, a few weeks passed by without providing any life signal. Sorry! To summarize it: many things happened that required to focus on the "real life".Now I am already in Budapest and I'm...
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Budapest, Day 2 and 3
I already proposed two days ago, that - if you like - we may have a look at Budapest together. Yesterday, I wasn't able to publish anything, so let's continue with a small photo series taken during the...
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Stuff on the Shelf
Hi everyone,as some of you know ... we are currently in the "hot phase" to prepare our upcoming move. After the flooding of parts of our house some weeks ago, the preparation for and being at the...
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Hi everyone,some of you may know that I moved; we really needed more space, so we rented a nice flat only a few hundred meters from our old location. So, yesterday, we returned our keys to the owner of...
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