Archive of 2009 February

A nerdygirl review of the Game Developers Conference

on February 5th, 2009 in ALA, Avenging, Cornell, Favorite Posts, Feminism, Interface design, Library tourism, San Francisco, Tech, User Interface Design, Video games, Women in tech by | 4 Comments
A nerdygirl review of the Game Developers Conference

Greetings from an ethnic librarian working in the games industry! I’m posting this review of my experience last year at GDC (the Game Developers Conference) held every year here in San Francisco. It was originally part of a letter to my team here at Linden Lab, but I thought you…

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SXSW Interactive 2009 – Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research

on February 3rd, 2009 in Avenging, Career, Digital Library, information science, Interface design, Librarianship, Linden Lab, Second Life, SxSw, Tech, User Interface Design, Video games by | 2 Comments

Happy news! I was invited to be a panelist at the South by Southwest Interactive conference next month, as part of their ScreenBurn track. I’m on a panel called “Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research.” I’ll share my experience starting some low-budget user research cycles for Second Life,…

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