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You have one minute to pitch something is a concept that many people will understand – try not to lose their attention, the timer is counting down and you have to speak quickly. Tonight, Sam and I saw this in action at the “First Wednesday Connect” hosted by the CBR...

In a recent episode of Silicon Valley, main character and developer Richard Hendricks laments that users would love his product if only they understood it. Soon, his investors come to the conclusion that the only people who Richard had test the product were other engineers. More than just a great...

Following on from our usability sessions, we ran a design jam for Aristotle at ThinkPlace in Canberra. Before the jam, I got to watch some feedback videos of the usability sessions that had been conducted a few weeks before. (see the Usability Sessions blog post for more details) During the...

The only way to find out if something is usable is to have people test it out for you, and give you feedback, and that is what we did for Aristotle. We needed people to try out the demo to see if it was actually usable and understandable for someone...

Recently, I had the misfortune of attending hospital for surgery and despite the excellent care on hospital, the experience could have been made worse before I even reached the medical staff. In planning for surgery, I needed to coordinate with four groups, my GP, my specialist, the local health precinct...

After a long time coming, we’re ready to go live with our new site! This is an exciting next step for the Aristotle Metadata Registry that takes us from proof-of-concept/prototype/start-up land into the world of delivering products. Our webpage says it all, but to sum up who we are, we...