Alicia Harper Design

Add a poll to a Facebook page

Alicia Harper — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:23:05 +0000

1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=20678178440 2. Click Add to My Page 3. Choose your page, then close. 4. Go to your page (ie. Delta Riding Club) The poll application now is in the tabs at the top. 5. Click on the Poll tab at the top of your page 6. Click Create A Poll on the right hand side 7. Fill out the form. Click Submit 8. Publish your poll 9. Invite your [...]

A review of Online Dating sites post 1 of 3

Alicia Harper — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:19:23 +0000

Now, those of you who know me - know I have been dating. And those of you who know me just a little bit know I am quite aggressive. So once I was single I decided to try online dating. I didn’t just date a couple of people, I was serious about it. My girlfriend, [...]

Be a Usability Participant - Get $75 Gift Card from Boston Pizza

Alicia Harper — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:36:22 +0000

I’m recruiting some more great volunteers to help Boston Pizza make sure that their website is awesome for our launch. In return - we’re giving you a 75$ Gift certificate valid for any Boston Pizza. We are looking for a 10 people to participate in a study geared towards refining the new design of our website. [...]

A long time coming: Northern Voice 2009

Alicia Harper — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:45 +0000

I know it’s been along time since I have blogged - unfortunately work gets in the way of me actually getting anything done. I attended Northern Voice on both the Friday and the Saturday. Friday for me was kind of a flop. Although food was much better this year. Way to go Northern Voice! Friday the [...]

Mobify me at Interaction 09

Alicia Harper — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:11:32 +0000

If you read my blog at all you’ll know that I attended Interaction 09 here in Vancouver. One of the presenters was a local company mobify.me. They mentioned a term that I greatly respected. The statement was it’s not the “Mobile Web” like everyone said but it’s the “Web on Mobile” They made a great [...]

Designing the viral app w/Christina Wodtke

Alicia Harper — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:09:02 +0000

Christina Wodtke made an excellent presentation at Interaction 09 - Vancouver. Christine is a product manager for Linked In. Our favorite professional networking website. If you would like to hear Christina speak, she is making another appearance in Calgary shortly. Christina talked about how your product or website in her case ( and ours ) should [...]

My experience at IXDA Vancouver - Day One & Two

Alicia Harper — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:48:06 +0000

This weekend I attended the IXDA conference here in Vancouver. You can read all about IXDA on their website. Or you can read the rest of my post to hear the shortened version. This post includes Day 1 & 2. Day 3 to come soon! The first day, Friday was basically a half day and included [...]

Good Usability - Top ten rules from a user’s perspective

Alicia Harper — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:26:43 +0000

I have been searching the net for some time looking for some examples of good usability posts and what that means to share with some co-workers. That way it wouldn’t sound like I was making this all up. I was unable to find any suitable to send them and thought - maybe other people are [...]

Have visited links disappeared?

Alicia Harper — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:38:01 +0000

Lately I have been doing some usability testing and reviewing a large amount of other sites and one of the things that I noticed was that the visited links has but disappeared. I am not sure why maybe designers don’t think it’s important. Maybe they just forgot. The truth is visted links is not just important [...]

BSWD has moved.

Alicia Harper — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:25:09 +0000

As part of our New Year’s resolution, to clean up all our websites, we have moved the BSWD site over to www.aliciaharper.com. We will still be operating the same, just over her at www.aliciaharper.com Thanks for your patience and continued support. If you have any questions, about your current support - please email me at alicia@aliciaharper.com