Thursday, February 28, 2002
It was a very busy day at work. I had a meeting at 7:30 am, which is much earlier than I usually go in to work. I met with Cindy and Mary Anne (the Dean) and the student leadership group to determine a course of action for putting student contact information on the Web while maintaining student privacy concerns. Phase I will be simple: use PDF files with a common, shared password, since they already have some of this data collected for creating printed picture books and contact info directories. At noon, I met with the web team and the Dean, and we did usability testing of the soon-to-be-launched redesigned School of Pharmacy Web site with the Dean driving the browser. We found that she wasn't a scroller and that she relied heavily on the leftside navigation (both points contrary to most student-tested behavior). At 3 pm Susie and I met with Jill Garland, who manages Web sites for the School of Medicine to discuss our Web usability testing techniques. I managed to squeeze in some changes and content updates. Worked through lunch by eating pork tenderloin with stuffing in my office. Patrick has been catching up on some reading. Right now he's been reading Yukio Mishima's Acts of Worship. Yesterday I started on Workflow That Works by Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler. Dinner tonight is quick and yummy: takeout burritos from El Farolito, black cherry Calistoga for me, "starfruit flavor" Gatorade for Patrick. I wake at 3:00 am from itching my eyes. I catch up on web browsing, e-mail, and journaling.