A usability guy
I am a Finnish
usability practitioner (MSc) - that is, I deal with people and software.
I co-founded Fluxitek. We build software that helps engineers measure product quality, and allows them to concentrate on what is important in their work.
Working with the Moodle community is a passion for me. Open source usability also more generally is a challenge that takes my mind over from time to time. still do a lecture/presentation here and there about the subject. software, moodle blog
About me
See also: design references, software workI find people interesting and confusing, and thus I spend a great part of my time wondering about their strange ways (and my own), learning to live. I find listening important, one of the most important things. My passion, still just finding a way to become reality, is to help people find ways to live up to their fullest potential, staying true, keeping real.
Designing great web sites/services and software both in terms of user experience and technology is intriguing. I have been building web sites and applications for about a decade now, and come up with new projects once in a while. I usually do not have enough time to implement most of them.
pretty pics&photos
I like all sortsa movies,
green tea
and red
wine,
melancholy,
sincerity,
playing, singing, poems and poets. I respect being open to new thoughts
and new ways to see, ignoring prejudice (though it is hard sometimes).
I also find singing, climbing, swimming and
pilates enjoyable -
sometimes even fun!
For managing things, I do Getting Things Done with Toodledo and NuevaSync. For managing my head, I do Mindfulness (video at Google Talks).
If you feel you have got something you would like to share, well, my contact info is right here on this page.
Contact me
- e-mail:
- olli . savolainen
@ pilpi . net
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- location:
- Tampere, Finland
- irc:
- ollies on IRCNet
- google talk / jabber:
- olli dot savolainen (at) gmail.com (no email)
- msn:
- nospace (at) hotmail.com (no e-mail)
- telephone:
- +358 41 4621345
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- UI design quiz: What does this tell you of the state of the app/system they are talking about? What gives? https://t.co/7sgeR8ce
5 May 2012, 4:38 pm - Flip this lesson! A new way to teach with video from TED-Ed http://t.co/u2duc9w9
25 April 2012, 5:07 pm - 6 Disasters Caused by Poorly Designed User Interfaces
https://t.co/kRh9yTJB
18 April 2012, 4:03 pm - A Usability Maturity Model for Open Source Software. If only someone just applied this to Moodle! http://t.co/YH8bZ5T7 http://t.co/FEkEVER3
16 February 2012, 10:58 am - Understanding basic usability work and the thinking behind it: Variations on Usability Tests: http://t.co/AnYSLM0P #moodle
28 December 2011, 9:33 pm