About
Originally from France (Paris) I have been based in Hong Kong since 2000. I am currently working as a Product Manager for GoAnimate.com, a Web start-up company aiming at empowering anyone to express themselves using animation as opposed to videos, blogs, etc. This current postion takes a lot of my time and resulted in me blogging less… a shame, which I am trying to work on.
Although I take interest in a lot of different things (I find it hard to focus my mind on a single topic), I would say I am an experience manager. In whatever I do I enjoy looking at interactions between people (within a company as well as outside it) and interactions between people and systems (interactive, organizational, cultural, etc.). This blog, I guess, relects this.
PsychObserver 
Thank for the docstoc post. Working on user facing software for the past 20 years or so (and I’m not that old…), I always try to put myself in the user’s shoes. “What would I hate” and “what would I love” are common questions, basically be the user’s advocate.
I will spend more time on your blog as I believe you are addressing a very important point that is too often overlooked by the hype of cool gadgets and fun technologies (can we say AJAX anymore?)
Thanks
Alon Shwartz
CTO, docstoc.com
Hi Alon,
Good to hear that you enjoy my blog. Sometimes I am myself not so sure what I am writing about… ;o) … if it can make some sense in the end, that’s good.
Designing good usable interfaces is first and foremost a mindset, you are right. The ability to think from the user perspective.
Thanks for your comment.
I’ll be spending more time on DocStoc myself. :o)
I tried out goanimiate.com, and created my first cartoon (http://goanimate.com/go/movie/53509?ref=url&refuser=131253).
(Don’t have your email, so put a note here.)
Thanks,
ada
Dear Psychobserver ,
The Internet has transformed how we communicate with the public, but there are still many challenges in making information easy to find. Since you cover interaction design in Psychobserver, I thought you might be interested in a study that my nonprofit published this summer about how people find information online. The study covers three groups: non-profit organizations and cities; web designers and firms; and the general public.
The study was fascinating on a number of levels, and I invite you to read the executive summary or download a PDF of the findings at http://www.idea.org/find-information.html .
The survey results sparked ideas about tools we could provide that might make finding information online easier. This fall, we will start beta testing a cool new new navigational tool. I don’t have your email, so if you are interested, you can sign up for our beta here: http://www.spicynodes.org/ or to stay abreast of our (very) occasional new projects, you can get our newsletter here: http://www.idea.org/newsletter.html
Thanks,
Michael