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a day in the life (summary)

  • Artigo

Pretty much everything that I did on my selected day is communicate. I manage the work that my contractors are doing (and sometimes they manage me because I’ve forgotten to get them something!). I design usability studies, a task which requires feedback from many other people in MacBU: my contractors (if they’re working on the study), my counterpart (if the test is on one of the shared components of the suite), the PMs, development, test, user assistance, planning, and marketing. I discuss results from usability studies. I am asked for my opinion about user experience concerns, based on my knowledge of the Mac, other Mac apps, our current apps, and our users.

In my first post, when I gave the list of apps that I’d use today, I was entirely correct. I didn’t open up any other apps, not even my web browser. However, I thought that my use would be different. I assumed that I’d have an extra few minutes between meetings so that I could at least keep on top of my email, but that assumption was entirely wrong. All of my meetings ended when we were kicked out of our conference room by the group that had the room next, so I just flew from one meeting to the next. I only saw my email at the very end of the day, and that wasn’t all of my email: it was only what I’d downloaded at one point in the afternoon. (On Friday morning, I had an additional 100 new messages waiting for me.)

This day might not be representative, but I don’t know that I really have a day that is representative. Maybe I’ll repeat this exercise on a day when I’m in the usability lab, since that will give you an idea of one of the other extremes of what my day looks like. Plus it might give you some insight into what happens in the lab, as well as the associated activities.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2006
    I've been unexpectedly back at my parents but had a chance to play with  Parallels RC2  running XP SP2 on a 20 InteliMac. Wow, what can I say, fastest, problem free instal of XP SP2 I've ever done, was up and running in less then an hour, no reboot required even. All of my mum's Windows programs that she wanted to use work perfectly, obviously banned XP from making any network connection.

    Can't see how VPC will ever better this, apart from sheer speed and performance. Even while running rosetta at the same time, Parallels is still fast.

    Should be going GM soon and I'm sure this product is going to fly off the shelves. Much better solution then BootCamp for sure and exactly what Intel Mac users have been wanting.