Article critiques: scenarios, stories

This post discusses the following readings: Go, K., & Carroll, J.M. (2004). The blind men and the elephant: Views of scenario-based system design. interactions, 11(6), 44-53. Gruen, D., Rauch, T., Redpath, S., & Ruettinger, S. (2002). The use of stories in user experience design. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 14(3&4), 503-534. I thought the best …

More on email overload

Yet more reaction to this article: Whittaker, Steve, and Candace Sidner. “Email Overload: Exploring Personal Information Management of Email.” Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 13-18, 1996, 276-283. From a records management POV, I had these thoughts: People are so overwhelmed when they’re in the …