Make » UE http://www.make-studio.co.uk Design, food and services Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:57:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Further reading. http://www.make-studio.co.uk/2009/02/further-reading/ http://www.make-studio.co.uk/2009/02/further-reading/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:36:15 +0000 Matt http://www.make-studio.co.uk/?p=372 ‘www.foodux.org is a collection of inspirational web gems for user experience designers from the gastronomic and culinary arts’

]]> http://www.make-studio.co.uk/2009/02/further-reading/feed/ 0 My Urbanspoon wishlist http://www.make-studio.co.uk/2009/02/urbanspoon-wishlist/ http://www.make-studio.co.uk/2009/02/urbanspoon-wishlist/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:48:55 +0000 Matt http://www.make-studio.co.uk/?p=278 After trying several of the social networks for restaurant go-ers I settled on Urbanspoon. It was the simple stuff that won me over, the been-to / wanna-go-to list and the reviews not only by users but foodie blogs and newspaper articles. Neither that revolutionary but they’re missing from the likes of Qype and TrustedPlaces which only use community content.  It’s been a few months and I’ve started appearing in the charts, (something unexpected and wasn’t looking for now am suddenly competitive over) I’ve also started reviewing and taking photographs, both things that mean I’m spending more time on the site and leading me to now want more from it.

Recommendations please. There’s currently none.  It’s all based on ratings which gets you some way but I have to do a lot of filtering to find the places I’m interested in.  If venues could be tagged then over time you  can use my profile to suggest places that are not only highly rated but also ‘informal’, ‘local’, ‘east london’ or whatever came up.

Introduce me to people. Not to eat with, just to casually link to. Maybe people who live near me or regularly eat similar types of food, kinda like twitter following.

Help with sharing. For the one friend I have (see point 2) it’s tricky to share and discuss stuff. Pushing me to email breaks the experience.  When I’m there I want to open up conversation in the page, maybe even open it up to others.  Even just a way to send restaurant or booking details to friends via facebook would be nice.

That’s a shortlist. There’s others but these would be lovely and if you want to encourage more of it then UserVoice is pretty cool.

]]> http://www.make-studio.co.uk/2009/02/urbanspoon-wishlist/feed/ 0 UX recruiters in San Francisco http://www.make-studio.co.uk/2008/11/ux-recruiters-in-san-francisco/ http://www.make-studio.co.uk/2008/11/ux-recruiters-in-san-francisco/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:16:53 +0000 Matt http://www.make-studio.co.uk/?p=31 A shortlist compiled with the help of several friendly members of the Adaptive Path Alumni mail group.  All came recommended.

Corey O’Brien @ AQUENT
cobrien@aquent.com
Phone: (415) 399-2601
Mobile: 925 408 6051

Saul Cohen @ Cohen Search Consultants
saul@cohensearch.com
Phone: (415) 898 3123
Mobile: (415) 272 4764

Theresa Djirbandee @ UxStation
theresa@uxstation.com

Christina Murphy @ CM Recruiting
christina@cm-recruiting.com
Phone: (415) 308-5748

Stephanie Shapiro
steph@designrecruiter.com
Mobile:  (510) 524-2957

Ed Zschau @ Inductus Associates
ed@inductus.com
Phone: (650) 218-5866

…Oh and the BAY CHI Job Board

and I’m also told Wert Co

Let me know if any numbers etc are wrong.

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