Roomba Day 1
Posted on January 28, 2009 in Innovation, Non-work "work", Product Experience, User Experience by LisView Comments

I recently made a new purchase that I know will affect my life in many ways. I FINALLY bought a Roomba!!! This product has been all the buzz the past few years, and I got to see it in action during my stint in Texas. When I moved to NYC I vowed to get a Roomba of my own, and he arrived yesterday and is doing well :-) . I have named my Roomba… get ready for it…. Roomba and am looking forward to our relationship together. I also wanted to take some time to blog about my experiences with this product, to get my point of view about such a widely talked about vacuum out there.


Having only had Roomba for a few hours, I can’t say that I’ve totally figured out all the features, but I will say that it’s not that hard to… which is a great thing! The first thing I noted was that Roomba came with a quick-start guide (a standard these days). What made this process stand out is that there was really no process. The guide basically said take Roomba out of the box and plug him in to charge. When he’s green hit the “Clean” button and you are on your way. And that was it. There was no assembling necessary, nothing really was necessary except insuring he was charged. Once the light turned green I hit “Clean” as instructed and that was that!


So, so far so good. Set up was simple for general cleaning. I did purchase the 560 model which has some more advanced features that I will putz around with the next couple days and report back with any findings!!


January 20, 2009
Posted on January 20, 2009 in Uncategorized by LisView Comments

Today is the day the world changed. There’s nothing more to say.

Our users
Posted on January 12, 2009 in Usability, User Experience by LisView Comments

I am completely excited today because tomorrow and Thursday I’ll be away from the office listening to real users talk about my company’s website and more specifically one of the products that I’ve been working on. At my old job, this opportunity came along with just about every project that I worked on, and I realize now that I took that very much for granted. At my new company we do user testing on the website maybe two to three times a year… a drastic change.

The benefit for me and usually anyone that has to do with product development, is that I can see what users want, here their thoughts and feelings as well as watch their reactions to certain ideas. These moments provide me with the ability to make better educated guesses as to what types of things will work for our users and which won’t OR even better which need to be changed. All of this is of course old hat for those of you that have been knee deep in the UX realm, but I was able to bring these thoughts to my forefront and really explore them and understand them.

Although I wish I got to see more user testing, going without it has taught me a LARGE number of lessons as well. We’ll see what happens this week!