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    These is my log of professional, political and sometimes personal thoughts and observations. I am Bettina Walter, a Senior Information Architect (IA), Interaction Designer and Usability Professional.
    I am co-owner of PunkLogic.

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Food Court Musical

Food Court Musical

via Phil Gyford. Thanks Phil!

Connecting the dots.

Today spells the end of 98 years of Noosa council.
Noosa News is running a big ‘Farewell Article’:

Westwing on flickr

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Originally uploaded by Barack Obama
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I’m hooked.

Looking up – update:

Tim has just opened a blog can and there will be good words and chuckles aplenty.

US Primary, social computing and attention to detail.

The quality, functionality and sophistication of Obama’s website and Clinton’s website blow me away. The blogs, the shops, the features, the use of social computing… – both candidates are doing well and setting very high standards. The attention to detail especially with Obama’s online campaign are astounding – check the well design, coherent, custom made [...]

GTD: Increased Productivity with Firefox Extensions

Found a great list of firefox plug-ins for ‘Getting Things Done’ on LifeDEv – a site about ‘Personal development that focuses on creativity, productivity and GTD.’
I’ll start with better gmail and remember the milk for gmail and will work my way down the list – once my new laptop has arrived!

“ You cannot NOT have a user experience!”

(by Lou Carbone)
A treasure trove of User Experience Quotes – Collected by Szymon Błaszczyk.
Wonderful stuff! Thanks Szymon.

Dummy Text Generator – Little Beauty

Ahhh – simplicity and purpose: Bindtext Generator

Does what it says on the tin!
I work with real (sample) copy where appropriate. I find it’s often beneficial for user testing and also better for clients to grasp meaning, potential or functionality within my blueprints. However there are plenty of situations where ‘Lorem Ipsum’ is indispensable and [...]