Steve Krug
I can’t over-emphasis how much his single book Don’t Make Me Think influenced me and my shift from working in the general web design field to a more specialist role in IA & Usability.

Posted on June 20th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Books, Personal, Web Dev/IA | 2 Comments »

And as promised in one of the comments in the FSFJ entry, here is the PrintedManuals.jp site. I’ve worked quite hard on this one, and am reasonably happy with the results. PrintedManuals.jp is a service where we print English manuals (other languages too if available) for Japanese products like digital cameras or [...]

Posted on June 14th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japan, Tech, Web Dev/IA | No Comments »

And now the unveiling of Free Stuff From Japan! A month ago I posted that I was working on a new personal project and asked people to guess what it might be, from the letters FSFJ. That post got 20 comments (26 if counting my replies) and the incorrect guesses were as follows:

Posted on June 7th, 2005 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japan, Personal, Web Dev/IA | 1 Comment »

I’m sure this will disappoint my new friend Belle but I’ve sold my iBook.

Posted on June 1st, 2005 by Ian Cheung
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