Author: Kars Alfrink

Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.

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Trying out new web apps

I’m giving Rojo a spin right now.

I transfered all my feeds from Bloglines yesterday and, after an initial feeling that the app was bloated, I must say I quite like it. The tagging is well-implemented, and for some reason I feel I can scan my new stories much faster here than in Bloglines. The only glaring ommission is a notifier!

I’ve also signed up for 30 Boxes, and have been playing with the really cool natural language event input system. Once you get used to the forced AM / PM syntax, it’s quite nice. The only thing I’m missing here is a way to import an iCal export (.ics).

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Euro IA Summit 2005 report

While my notes are collecting dust on my hard drive, someone else finally got around to writing up a report of last year’s European IA Summit. As James Kalbach writes in his article on Boxes and Arrows:

“We should be intensely interested in documenting these summits… Does IA really want to deliver a wheelbarrow of PowerPoint slides in ten years as the body of its work?”

Four Things Meme

It’s all Peter’s fault, who in turn was ‘tagged’ by Thomas. At least I’m in good company. :-) Here’s a few silly top four lists (not necessarily definite):

Four Jobs I’ve Had

  1. Second rate paper boy (delivering folders and such) in De Bilt, the Netherlands
  2. Summer job preparing orders of computer hardware in Hilversum, the Netherlands
  3. Freelance interaction designer for Leapfrog, my own company
  4. Interaction designer at Bright Alley Interactive Communication