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Please Enjoy The Social Web Workshop with Ji Lee

Today I attended the workshop ‘Please Enjoy The Social Web’ on the Design @ Work trade show in Kortrijk (Belgium) (link). Full of anticipation I woke up this morning at 6 a.m. to catch my train to Kortrijk from Brussels. An early wake-up (certainly for a student) but absolutely worth it, I figured.
I arrived 5 [...]

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December 9, 2009 by Clovis Six in Collibra, Seminars/Workshops/Conferences, Uncategorized
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‘Please Enjoy the Social Web’ by Ji Lee (Content Overview)

This is a quick overview of the main projects Ji Lee was talking about on the Work @ Design trade show in Kortrijk:

Univers Revolved 3D Alphabet: A college project where he rotated every letter of the alphabet around the y-axis to become a 3D shape. This way he built 3D ‘landscapes’ that had a meaning.
The [...]

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December 9, 2009 by Clovis Six in Uncategorized

Background Vector Artwork

Yesterday, in my search for inspiration at work. More in particular, some little background deco for buttons on the main website, I bumped into this website that offers a huge amount of royalty-free vector silhouettes. Really handy!

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July 14, 2009 by Clovis Six in Uncategorized
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LaTeX ActionScript 3 Listings Preset

Today I’ve been looking for a way to print my code efficiently for my bachelor project. I use to copy paste everything but from now on this is a thing of the past. I decided to use LaTeX to format my code as it can pretty much do everything else.
I found a package that could [...]

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May 23, 2009 by Clovis Six in Integrated Project, Uncategorized
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Final Presentation Calexico

As I announced yesterday, we had our final presentation for Calexico in front of all the other Software Engineering groups, the professor and his assistant.
But first, we started by rehearsing it all in the morning. The feeling I got there was a rather weird one. We still had loads of bugs and the interface was, [...]

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May 21, 2009 by Clovis Six in Software Engineering, Uncategorized
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Usability Examples Calexico

Today was the last day our group of software engineering (course at the VUB) were working on our project ‘Calexico‘. The project aim was to build a calendar system that resembles Googles Calendar with a couple of additional features like searching for free slots etc.
As we mutually agreed to freeze the development at midnight (a [...]

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May 20, 2009 by Clovis Six in Software Engineering, Uncategorized
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Card Sorting Experiment

A couple of weeks ago, I conducted my very first usability experiment for the beta release of the Collibra Studio Workbench. The goal of this experiment was four folded:
First, we wanted to check the optimal structure for both, the perspective surrounding, and the icon order in the NormTree Editor.  A perspective is a certain arrangement [...]

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May 9, 2009 by Clovis Six in Uncategorized, Usability
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