Despite the fact that I have conducted numerous tape-recorded interviews and video-taped contextual inquiries, I still get this weird feeling when I hear myself speak. For some reason, it\’s still embarassing to hear my voice. I am glad that when we videotape, we videotape the user rather than the interviewer. Otherwise I\’ll get caught up on how I look because I have never seen that side of me before.
On an unrelated note to myself, don\’t settle for second best. Always keep striving for the best, because you deserve it.
Strange you word your blog this way.
Every time I hear \”contextual inquiry,\” it reminds me of fast food burgers and chicken sandwiches and that place in Oakland where we tried to help less fortunate people search for jobs on the computer… not to mention we tried to improve their site (fasttrackclass.org), which coincidentally doesn\’t seem to be up anymore! That\’ll teach them to disregard our magnificent code & usability improvements!
By the way, what was that place called?
job consortium? haha I have no idea! they must have went under because of a lack of usability!
go for the gold ^_^