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Susan's Developer User Experience BlogDo what you're good at, we'll take care of the resthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/atom.aspxTelligent Community 5.6.583.17018 (Build: 5.6.583.17018)2010-10-27T15:22:00ZNielsen's comment on WP7 usabilityhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2011/08/15/nielsen-s-comment-on-wp7-usability.aspx2011-08-15T17:43:38Z2011-08-15T17:43:38Z
Jakob Nielsen is a well-known guru in the usability world. He has done a lot to bring usability to the forefront of software engineering.

In one of his alertboxes, he does a quick assessment of WP7.

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From: Jakob Nielsen
 Sent: 8/15/2011 9:54 AM
 To: Alertbox Announcement List

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 WINDOWS PHONE 7 USABILITY TESTING

 Last week we ran a series of studies with users of Windows Phone 7, to
 update our various mobile training seminars for the San Francisco
 Usability Week next month. We still have a month to do the detailed data
 analysis, but my preliminary conclusion is that the main design guidelines
 for mobile usability don't change: the big findings were the same as for
 the iPhone and Android users we also tested last week.

 Windows Phone 7 tested quite nicely, though the application store has too
 many usability problems. (But so does Apple's store with its clunky iTunes
 UI.) Unfortunately, it's still not quite there. I can easily see how v.8
 might become a killer, though.

 One big plus for WinPhone can be exemplified by this user comment: I know
 what this icon means because it's similar to what I see on my PC.

 (If you're not so lucky to own the world's most used desktop software,
 you'll have to design mobile icons that work on their own merits, and not
 all the ones we tested did. More on this in the seminar on Visual Design
 for Mobile – 3rd link below.)

 A big downside for WP7 is that we now observe accidental activation of the
 system buttons, in addition to the problems of accidental touches inside
 the apps that plagues iOS and Android. Also WP7 suffers just as much as
 Android from the same lack of predictable and consistent use of the
 buttons throughout the apps. MS (and Google) needs to crack down on apps
 designers who don't understand usability. Much as people deplore Apple's
 overly aggressive attitude towards its apps store, there's something to be
 said for platform-wide enforcement of a UI standard.

 Detailed findings to be reported next month:

 > http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/mobile.html
 > http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/mobile_apps.html
 > http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/mobile_visual_design.html

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sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAct First, Do the Research Laterhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2011/08/03/act-first-do-the-research-later.aspx2011-08-04T00:42:00Z2011-08-04T00:42:00Z
Don Norman posted an article about the realities of design in industry and how going through the ideal process of doing research first, then going through ideation/prototyping/iteration is not necessarily optimal.

Why it is not necessary to start with design research

Here are five very different arguments to support the practical reality of starting by designing, not through design research. First, the existence of good design that was not preceded by research. Second, the argument that experienced designers already have acquired the knowledge that would come from research. Third, the research effort of a company ought to be continually ongoing, so that results are available instantly. Fourth, and most controversial, research might inhibit creativity. And fifth, when the product is launched and the team assembled, it is already too late.

~ <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/controlpanel/blogs/posteditor.aspx/Act First, Do the Research Later">Act First, Do the Research Later

There are a number of comments on the post from the design point of view... but what about from the researchers point of view? Sometimes a user experience person is both the designer and researcher, so the distinction doesn't matter. However, when there is a distinction, as there is at Microsoft, there can be very different points of view. For me, I'm a researcher and I collaborate heavily with designers. However, I wouldn't be any stretch of the imagination call myself a designer. I've seen these pros in action and can't do what they do. However, I can do research really well and love that aspect of it.

Some of things that hit home for me on this article was the point of when the project is started, the research is already too late (Point 5 in Norman's argument). I've had numerous occasions when I've started working on a project and they want to know everything about the topic... yesterday. There's no time to carry out a nice, valid ethnographic study or series of research studies that I would want. Lightswitch was one example where we did do the research first, but that is certainly the exception and not the rule. I'll have to write about that in another blog post though.

Planning for Visual Studio 2005 was a time when we pulled together every bit of research we could put our hands on and made it required reading for each scenario team. This was the first time I was involved in an effort like this. There was no time for new research, but we had about 2 weeks to pull out all the research we did on previous versions, what research Office had done on FrontPage (I was working on the web dev tools), all the Expression research we could find, and all the marketing reports we could find. It made for a huge amount of research collected all in one place and got everyone socialized into what we currently knew about web development.

So the point of constantly doing research (Point 3 of Norman's argument), and being immersed in what our customers are doing resonated well to me. Not waiting until a request has been made to kick off research projects is quite necessary. It also takes the pressure off of having to deliver research results in a rushed fashion. It ends up just feeling like intuition with data to point people to if they weren't involved in the project when the research happened. Always Researching. Always Acting.

Norman's second argument that designers already have the acquired knowledge that would come from research is an interesting one. He says: "I find that in my design consulting, I will sometimes skip the research phase. Act first, then analyze and think about it afterwards. I can get away with this because I did the necessary research over the preceding years: I have a lot of pre-existing knowledge." As an experienced researcher, this happens all the time. Keeping the people I work with constantly informed and having them participate in the ongoing research gives them this ability as well. Sometimes, I come across newer researchers who are very paranoid about their product team making decisions without the appropriate research done first. I've found that the longer I work with people, I certainly know who knows what's going on and has been fully immersed in the research. We have much better interactions on what the right things are to do for the customer and don't have to put off decisions to get the research done. We also know when we hit something that we don't know the answer to and put together specific research to address those questions. Experience is huge.

For the fourth argument of having too much research... I haven't really seen this happen on my job because we never have the time to do too much. I sometimes wish I had that kind of time! We have ship dates and deadlines and we have to move. We're not crippled by spending too much time researching something to death. Of course, this also leads to why I don't write academic papers... I don't have time for that type of research. Which leads to a tangent point... we have "Ux Days" at Microsoft where we present our research methods and interesting findings to the internal Ux community. These are usually awesome presentations that are cutting edge and informative. But, they would never make it to a professional conference with a rigorous review process. It's a shame, because that's the type of research that helps most to hear about for industry folks.

As for #1, yep it happens; glad it does.

sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxRe-orged to Windows Phonehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2011/08/01/re-orged-to-windows-phone.aspx2011-08-02T00:37:19Z2011-08-02T00:37:19Z
A month or so ago, I was re-orged to the Windows Phone team. My main job in the Developer Division was to research the Mobile Phone Developer experience. I had worked pretty evenly with people in DevDiv and in WP, so I always thought my job could be done in either organization. Well, now I'm doing my same job from the "other side", which basically means not much change to my main focus, and getting rid of extraneous projects that didn't relate to phone development. Our windows phone developer ux team is currently articulating our little group's vision and figuring out where the biggest gaps are in user experience - resulting in what we will focus our research and design efforts on.

With switching teams, I now sit in an open space instead of my own office. It's a weird transition, but going pretty well. I thought I would be wildly distracted by everyone else, but people are nicely respectful of others. I also sit with the researchers working on the consumer experience. I find it interesting to hear what they are learning and what they are researching. Much of this info would be really useful to our 3rd party developers, but I need to navigate the political waters of what can be shared before divulging that particular information. It is an interesting transition to be around people focused on the consumer rather than everyone being focused on the developer audience. It's also surprising how little others know about the developer experience, so I see a big part of my job as educating them and keeping it on their minds.

If you're developing Windows Phone apps and want to be on my go-to list for feedback, let me know!

sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxQuick & Dirty Usability Techniques for Developershttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2011/06/10/quick-amp-dirty-usability-techniques-for-developers.aspx2011-06-10T18:57:00Z2011-06-10T18:57:00Z
I recently recorded a video for Silverlight TV on Quick and Dirty Ux Testing. My goal was to give three techniques that anyone can use to easily, quickly and cheaply test their products.

Silverlight TV Episode

These techniques can be used for any software product, large or small, Mac or PC, Web or Desktop. I used a mobile phone example because it was a small app to demonstrate the points. However, we do all of these techniques to evaluate Visual Studio and other tools, so don't limit yourself.

In the video I discuss three techniques. Here are the tips:

Cognitive Walkthroughs

Before you begin, you need to know who you are designing for. Put yourself in that user's shoes to do the evaluation.

Tell a credible story for these two questions:

Will the user know what to do at this step?

If the user does the right thing, will they know that they did the right thing, and are making progress towards their goal?

Group Ground Rules

No designing

No defending a design

No debating cognitive theory

Heuristic Evaluations

Before you begin, you need to know who you are designing for. Put yourself in that user's shoes to do the evaluation.

Put together UI to evaluate

Make list of applicable heuristics

Put yourself in user's shoes

Evaluate each piece of UI

Record issues

Standard Heuristics

Consistency - Users should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same thing. Follow platform conventions.

Visual Design - All aspects of the product should exhibit excellent visual quality and attention to detail

Communication - The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

Ease and Efficiency - The system should be efficient to use and physically easy to interact with.

Error Prevention - Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone conditions or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.

TIP: Good to do with a group or representative user

Valuable Usability Studies

For recruiting participants in your usability assessment: If your app is highly contextual and domain specific, you will need to find people who are in your target audience. If you have a more general app, or general gestures and tasks in your apps, most anyone should do*.

 1. Make a list of end user goals

 2. Recruit 6 people

 TIP: 6 people will find 80% of issues

 TIP: Remember basic human behavior is constant*

 3. Have them try to complete the goals

  TIP: Don't help!

 4. Have them think out loud as they try to complete the goals

 5. Record issues

 6. Make changes to the app

*Put someone in a dark room with a single, small, stationary light source. That person will report that the light source is moving around. It doesn't matter who they are. This is from basic psychology and it's also why lights on the top of towers blink and lighthouses turn around and around.

Relevant links:

John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa)

Susan's blog on Twitter (@susantoddux)

Grey Matter Trivia game

Corrina on Twitter (@corrinab)

Arturo's blog on Twitter (@arturot)

Tsitsi's blog on Twitter (@tsitsigora)

Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv

sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxUpdate: Using AppMakr for WP7 appshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2011/06/10/update-using-appmakr-for-wp7-apps.aspx2011-06-10T18:29:14Z2011-06-10T18:29:14Z
I reviewed my experience of making WP7 apps with AppMakr and I was pretty excited about the technology. However, it seems that their support for WP7 is sorely lacking. There is currently a showstopper bug that apps are getting rejected on. Many people have commented on the AppMakr forums about hitting this bug. The ads also don't work, so no monetization if you want to provide your app for free. Bugs on these were filed over a month ago with zero traction.

I did have a couple of apps make it through the marketplace and I get a fair number of downloads and decent reviews. However, with the two problems I list above, I am dropping further use of AppMakr. I may check back in a few months to see if the bugs are fixed, but I worry that as people stop using AppMakr because they can't ship their apps that AppMakr will take that as a sign of lack of interest.

sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx"People in Context" - a new way to look at and beyond Personashttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2011/05/06/quot-people-in-context-quot-a-new-way-to-look-at-personas.aspx2011-05-06T23:36:00Z2011-05-06T23:36:00Z
Background on Personas

I joined the Developer Division User Experience Group on January 13, 2003. At that time, the three, now famous Mort, Elvis and Einstein, personas had just been developed by the team. I benefited from the wealth of research the team had done with developers and had a shorthand way to quickly come up to speed about our developer audience.

The first public reference I can find of the developer personas is "Who are you? Mort, Elvis or Einstein" on September 25, 2003. Unfortunately, the author describes the personas from his memory of reading the profiles "a long-time ago" and intuition. The characterizations are wrong, but it seems many people believed them.

Steven Clarke, a fellow researcher on the DevDiv Ux Team, has accurately and succinctly described the three personas:

Systematic programmers tend to follow a defensive coding style. They do not make assumptions about the code they are writing, the platform it runs on, the class libraries that they are using etc. For example, they do not assume that a class library will behave as advertised. Instead, systematic programmers will test the library in a safe environment, inspect the library source code etc before using it in a production environment. Systematic programmers desire programming languages and APIs that give them full control over the execution of their code and that do not hide important details from them, even if it means they have to write more code and take more time to understand how the code works. They value being able to get under the covers and tinker with components or even replace them.

Pragmatic programmers tend to be less defensive than systematic programmers. In many cases, they are comfortable trading off control for productivity as long as they are aware of the existence of the trade off. Rather than spend the time understanding the full working details of an API, they will prefer to learn as they go, building up an understanding of the API, programming language etc in the context of the work that they are doing. They value being able to get under the covers and tinker with components should they need to, but will prefer not having to do so.

Opportunistic programmers value productivity features in a language, API and IDE very highly, often higher than anything else. Unlike systematic programmers, they place less value on having complete control over their code, since for opportunistic programmers, the cost of control is added development time. They particularly value 3rd party controls and APIs that allow them to concentrate on the business problem that they are trying to solve, rather than on configuring the control or specialising the API so that it meets their requirements. They don't really value being able to get under the covers and tinker with components - they would rather look for some other API or control that met their needs instead of modifying controls or APIs that they already have.

Another summary of the three is:

THE SYSTEMATIC DEVELOPER: Writes code defensively. Does everything he or she can to protect code from unstable and untrustworthy processes running in parallel with their code. Develops a deep understanding of a technology before using it. Prides himself or herself on building elegant solutions.

THE PRAGMATIC DEVELOPER: Writes code methodically. Develops sufficient understanding of a technology to enable competent use of it. Prides himself or herself on building robust applications.

THE OPPORTUNISTIC DEVELOPER: Writes code in an exploratory fashion. Develops a sufficient understanding of a technology to understand how it can solve a business problem. Prides himself/herself on solving business problems.

The first thing that should be noted is that the names don't really matter and that there's no reference to programming language. While each of these corresponds to a name, it's really about the work styles and behaviors of the developer. The names are just shorthand to make communication easy. However, the shorthand can't be used if everyone isn't on the same page about the work style. The second thing to note is these are not full descriptions of the personas. There is a lot more to them than these quick summaries.

Over the years, there has been a lot of controversy over these three personas. I speculate that one of the main reasons is that people don't fully understand the personas and the depth that is available about each one. They just get this quick snapshot, hear a few things from others, and form a weird and inaccurate view of each persona. However, it's interesting to see it unfold in blogs and the media. It's even more interesting that these personas are so famous they even have their own Wikipedia page. Who knew that an internal tool would be so powerful (and so misunderstood) outside the Microsoft walls?

The Power of a Name

While I stated above that names don't really matter, it's sort of a lie. The names are meant to be memorable and offer a way to talk about developers in a personal way. The developer personas are some of the few widely known personas across Microsoft... because of the names. Even if people in other divisions don't know what work styles they stand for, they do remember Mort, Elvis and Einstein and bring them up. I haven't seen any other name stick like these. As a little quiz, do you know who Abby, Ichiro, Frank, Anna and Miles are? What groups use them and who do they represent?

Although there is controversy around personas; if used correctly, they still remain a very powerful tool.

Evolution of Personas

While we still have our three famous developer personas described above, we also have additional personas. Ellen is an example of the first persona added after the famous three and we dub her the "vigilant tester". In fact, we have 19 different personas in use in the Developer Division today.

Another big change that has happened with our persona work is how we have expanded our thinking. Our drive is now what "People in Context" are doing. As many observers have noted over the years, depending on the context in which they are working, they may have a very different work style. While this is hinted at all over the place in the blogosphere, there's no reference to how this applies to personas directly and how we use it to design products. "People in Context" does just that.

"People in Context" gets more complicated than just the old personas, so I'm going to spend the next few blog posts breaking it down.

Interesting reading on our Developer Personas:

Climate change and developer personas by Steven Clarke

Making effective use of personas in design by Steven Clarke

Why profile users and not tasks? By Steven Clarke

Ellen by David Williamson

Applying personas by Nikhil Kothari

sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxUsing AppMakr for WP7 Appshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2011/04/27/using-appmakr-for-wp7-apps.aspx2011-04-27T19:34:00Z2011-04-27T19:34:00Z
There are a number of services that help people build apps for iPhone, Android and WP7. I originally checked these out so I could do a competitive analysis of the iPhone submission process without having to actually code anything. However, I recently noticed that AppMakr added an option to create a Windows Phone 7 app. While it's not as full featured as their iPhone AppMakr, it includes RSS feeds and Photo feeds, which is enough to make a basic app.

Joe Healy has a detailed walkthrough of how to make a WP7 app using AppMakr, so I'm not going to rehash that here.

To play with the different features, I made 7 different apps.

App #1: Paleo Lifestyle. This app's idea came from the blogs I personally read for all things Paleo. While the AppMakr part of the app was straightforward, I wanted to find a way to combine and filter RSS feeds. This led me to Yahoo Pipes. I wanted a tab for just Recipes and lots of websites have recipes listed. I ended up combining 6 of those sites' RSS feeds into one RSS feed for my app. Yahoo Pipes was a nice find for this purpose. It would have been nice to be able to do this in AppMakr though.

The other issue I ran into with this app was just making the graphics. AppMakr pulls images from the web for you to use, but I had no idea if they were copywrited, trademarked, or would otherwise get me in trouble if I used them. I went into Paint to make my own tiles, and well, you can tell. They really aren't the greatest. This is something I'll have to update.

I had 4 different categories or tabs in AppMakr, so it came out as a Pivot. The one thing I really don't like is the wasted space above the title banner. I filled it in on the screenshot, but it's black or white on the actual app. It would be nice to use that whole space for the banner.

Yahoo Pipe:

App #2: Wedding Chatter. No link for this one because it was rejected. I used the same set of tools, making my RSS feeds with Yahoo pipes. However, I put a lot of feeds and filtering into this app. I also had 11 categories, rather than the 4 I used in the first app. With this many categories, this one shows up as a Menu with the categories and then each has it's own page. No pivot.

A nice thing that AppMakr provides are a set of icons to choose from that show up in the Menu list. You can also make and upload your own. I just used there's for now.

I submitted this app and was rejected for the following reason: 5.2 Performance and Resource Management

Comments: The application fails to reactivate after being deactivated.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch the application.

2. Press "..."

3. Press "settings."

4. Press "clear" to clear the cached data.

5. Press "ok."

6. Press the device's back button.

7. Select any category.

8. Ensure that all content has loaded, and then press the device's start button.

9. Press the device's back button immediately or after 10 seconds.

10. Notice that the application terminates unexpectedly and fails to reactivate after it has been deactivated.

I love the detail I'm given from the test results report. Only problem is, I'm not entirely sure where to make the fix! It could be the feeds are too slow. It could be the Yahoo pipe filtering and combining is making it too slow. It could be a bug in AppMakr. It could be too many categories. I'll be experimenting with changing these variables to work out where things went wrong.

I'm pretty bummed that this one got rejected, because I put a lot more time into making the feeds and the design of the tiles.

Notice the black bar above the banner:

Bottom black bar is just my screenshot to balance out the top black bar. It's not in the app.

App #3: Wedding Dance Songs. This app is a pared down version of the above app. It breaks out just the music part. It only has a couple of feeds. My plan with this app is to experiment with adding feeds after publishing. The way I'm going to accomplish this is to use Yahoo Pipes again. Currently, I only have 2 blogs feeding this app. I plan to add 3-4 more to the pipes and see how it looks to the end user. This might be a viable solution to get the app through certification and then add new content afterwards. I won't be able to add new categories without submitting an update though.

App #4: Windows Phone News. I made this app, well, just because. I thought about the fact that I was making all these Windows Phone apps, but what about an app about Windows Phone News? Nothing much to actually report on this one. It went along smoothly and as expected after my other experiences.

App #5: Celebrity Wedding Chatter. This app is still in testing for certification as I write this. I made it simply because I'm obsessed with the Royal Wedding News and wanted to make it just a little broader in scope for when the Royal Wedding is over. Two of my Pipes didn't show content when I submitted the app. They do now, so it will be interesting to see if it gets accepted or not.

Apps #6-#7: These last two apps were created under the mindset of "how fast can I create an app, now that I have experience with the tool?". They are still in testing for certification while I write this.

#6: I created the "Top 10 Astronomy Blogs" in 2 hours. Most of that time was spent searching around for 10 blogs that were "top" and loaded quickly. This app doesn't use any pipes, so we'll see if performance is different leaving out the Pipes component.

#7: My final app, I created in one hour. My idea came from thinking about topics that people would want to know about daily. "Daily Devotions" was the first thing that came to mind, and since I was going for speed, I went for it. I also wanted to add in pictures through AppMakr's album feature, so this app includes pictures from Flickr.

There were a couple of issues I ran into for this app. First, I wanted to call my category by the blog the devotions were coming from. The character limit was too short in AppMakr. So, I had to trim the names, which I didn't like doing. Especially since there is plenty of room for longer names. The second issue was getting a photo feed. I couldn't work out how to get a photo feed from Flickr. So, I went back to Yahoo Pipes and did it from there. For this, I wasn't happy about the solution I came up with at all, but it works. I do like how AppMakr makes a collage of pictures with the feed though. I don't like that I can't get to the original picture from the app. Again, I haven't troubleshot this to know if it is AppMakr or Pipes that's not allowing this.

This app had 5 different categories and I learned that 5 ends up with a menu. So, if you want a pivot application, you should just have 4 categories.

Overall, getting an app out from idea to uploading in an hour is pretty darn quick. That included finding the feeds I liked, doing the basic artwork, and working through the Flickr issue.

Conclusion

AppMakr is really quite easy to use. It is fast, with the most time taken on finding the content to include, making the feeds (if necessary) and doing the artwork. None of which are done within AppMakr.

On average, my apps seem to be taking 3 days to get accepted or rejected. While I'm anxious to have them faster because I'm experimenting, it's really not too bad.

As Joe mentioned in his posts about AppMakr, I also ran across the issue of ads not showing up. I wasn't sure if I had picked categories that didn't have ads or if it was a bug in AppMakr until I read his post.

sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMix 2011http://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2011/04/25/mix-2011.aspx2011-04-25T22:51:02Z2011-04-25T22:51:02Z
The excitement of Mix 2011 is over, but the excitement of what we learned lives on.

Last year at Mix, we did a usability study of the Visual Studio Windows Phone tools. It was the first time we were allowed to show the tools to anyone in the public. We had great feedback and it was used to stop many arguments that occurred on what we should be doing for the developer. This year, we decided to focus on the new profiler, which is a new tool for the Windows Phone developer.

To run the study, I needed to get the latest Mango build on my laptop and phone. The final build for Mix was ready the Friday before the conference started. A bit later than I would have liked, but at least I had it and was ready to roll. Everything tested out and we even found a bug when I used my own apps as a test case. Which was stressful because I thought the tool was totally broken, but good for the team because now they know to fix it.

Our goal was to run the profiler "in the wild" with attendees apps. We would get feedback on the profiler and the attendees would get to test their apps. Seemed like a pretty good bargain. We ran two usability sessions. We found a number of bugs and a number of user experience issues with the profiler. It was really great feedback for us, and I hope the attendees were equally satisfied with being able to work with Microsoft employees to troubleshoot their apps.

The profiler comes out soon to the public. We're still refining it for the final release. If you're using it and have feedback, please let us know!

sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWorld Usability Day, November 11, 2010http://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2010/11/01/world-usability-day-november-11-2010.aspx2010-11-02T05:13:00Z2010-11-02T05:13:00Z
World Usability Day is just around the corner. The overall theme is "Communication" which is vitally important to making usable products. Microsoft participates in World Usability Day and hosts a number of different talks and activities. The three areas that will be focused on are: People, User Interface, and Technlogy. The public is invited to join in person at the Redmond campus or online! Visit http://www.microsoftwud.com/ to register.

From http://www.worldusabilityday.org/:

What is World Usability Day?

It's about making our world work better.
It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly. Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government, communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first…

World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability Professionals' Association to ensure that services and products important to human life are easier to access and simpler to use. Each year, on the second Thursday of November, over 200 events are organized in over 43 countries around the world to raise awareness for the general public, and train professionals in the tools and issues central to good usability research, development and practice.

sktoddhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sktodd/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSusan - Ux Researcherhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/susantodd/archive/2010/10/27/susan-ux-researcher.aspx2010-10-27T22:22:00Z2010-10-27T22:22:00Z
I'm a User Experience Researcher here at Microsoft. Been here since 1999 and I've worked on numerous products. Most of time has been in the developer division and learning all about developers. Currently, I am focused on Silverlight and Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone. Because I'm focused on the phone, I get to check out game development too which is new to me.

While I'm very passionate about making great experience for developers, I'm also interested in what makes developers tick. I'm currently doing a big project on the mobile phone developer persona and will be working on the gaming side of that soon. It's an exciting space and I'm excited to share it with you!

You can also find me on twitter here: http://twitter.com/susantoddux

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X-Men actress Famke Janssen has reported a very bizarre home invasion in which a children's book appeared mysteriously next to her bed in her Greenwich Village apartment. Weird, sure, but it doesn't seem very alarming until you take a look at the book — The Lonely Doll from 1957, about a lonely doll making friends with two bears ("Big Bear" and "Little Bear"). Taking these excerpts into account, the gesture becomes vaguely threatening and extremely creepy:
4. Once there was a little doll. Her name was Edith. She lived in a nice house and had everything she needed except somebody to play with. She was very lonely!
3. Every night when she said her prayers she pleaded, "Please, please, send me some friends."
2. "Just wait and see what fun we'll have!" Little Bear whispered in Edith's ear.
1. From then on Edith was never lonely again.
We would call the police, too, and we are not a six-foot-tall famous actress.

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Historian Kelly Enright discusses her new book Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure, the first biography of adventurers-turned-filmmakers Osa and Martin Johnson written for a general audience, on Sunday, October 16, 2011, at 2 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Kansans Osa and Martin Johnson earned world renown by recording their daring travels and jungle experiences from the South Pacific to Africa. Documentaries such as Congorilla and Jungle Depths of Borneo and Osa's book, I Married Adventure, captured the American imagination. Their legacy survives at the SafariMuseum in Chanute, Kansas, which continues to preserve their fascinating story.
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It is difficult to imagine a more composite administrative territory than that of the Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
The Italian Constitution assigns it the status of Region with a Special Statute, together with four other Italian regions. However, Friuli-Venezia Giulia obtained administrative autonomy and the special statute only in 1963. The reasons for this "constitutional delay" are interwoven with the international problems of the second postwar period and with those deriving from the region's "diversity" - the different historical, ethnic, and linguistic components that go to make up this area.
On the one hand lies Friuli, heir to the patriarchate of Aquileia and the Venetian Fatherland of Friuli, that goes from the Livenza to the Isonzo, including the provinces of Pordenone, Udine and part of the province of Gorizia. On the other lie the territories of Trieste and Gorizia, what is left of Venezia Giulia after the redrawing of borders after the Second World War, and which combines the Austrian influence with a past history of strong administrative and economic autonomy.
The traces of a common "Roman origin" are quite visible over all the territory, and the unifying element of the two parts is the X Regio Venetia et Histria, with its capital at Aquileia in the Augustan period. Starting from the Longobard settlements (6th century), the historical paths diverge and become particularized: Cividale del Friuli ? the Roman Forum Iulii (from which the name Friuli comes) - became the capital of the first Longobard Dukedom in Italy; the Franks, arriving a couple of centuries later, favoured the growth of the church of Aquileia; the patriarchal feudal state, which was created in 1077, held both religious and temporal power and this was extended temporarily even to the east, but already in the 12th century Gorizia had actually become independent and Trieste, along with other coastal towns, organized itself as a free city-state. It was the Fatherland of Friuli that became Venetian territory in 1420, while Trieste and Gorizia remained under the Austrian Empire. Pordenone was a "corpus separatum", under Austrian influence until 1515, when it too fell under the domination of Venice. With the peace treaty of Campoformido in 1797, Venetian domination came to an end and Friuli was ceded to Austria. After the period of domination by Napoleon, which affected also Trieste and Gorizia, it again became part of the Austrian Empire and was included in the Lombard-Veneto Kingdom, while Gorizia was merged with the Illyrian Kingdom and Trieste, together with
Istria, became part of the Austrian Coastal Region. The enlightened policy of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries encouraged an extraordinary economic flourishing, making Trieste the empire's port. The fortunate outcome of the war of independence brought Friuli alone into the unified Kingdom of Italy.
After the First World War, in which this region was a main theatre of operations, and suffered very serious damage and loss of life, the fates of these border lands were again united, although Venezia Giulia, in particular, underwent very painful experiences due to the explosion of contradictions regarding the borders.
The Second World War, once again very dearly paid for, led to the Anglo-American Administration in Trieste until the border was fixed with the Memorandum of London in 1954. When Trieste was reunited with Italy, the Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia could finally be established.
From the sea to the mountains, from East to West, the distances - as a bird flies - do not exceed a hundred kilometres, and a modern motorway network makes it easy to cover them.
In a small space, Friuli-Venezia Giulia contains very diverse environments, landscapes, histories, art and culture, which make up a varied and complex reality.
From the circle of mountains, the ending section of the Alps, one descends to the vast piedmont and morainic hill area.
The interesting and varied geological features are accompanied by a pleasant landscape, dotted with many castles that, from the late Middle Ages on, constituted the line of defence of this area which, on account of its position, was a land of passage and often of conquest.
The upper plains, especially in western Friuli, are characterized by arid and permeable soils called "magredi", or poor soils, where even the rivers disappear and run underground to resurface farther on, in what is known as the "line of karst springs". The arid "magredi" areas are nowadays made fertile by an extensive irrigation system, and the lush area of the karst springs, with its flourishing agriculture, is characterized by natural greenery along the rivers and woods on the plains.
Finally, we move on to the sea: the wide lagoons of Marano and Grado and the mouth of the Isonzo mark out the lower western coast, while to the east the coastline becomes high and rocky, with little bays such as those of Duino and Sistiana, all the way to Trieste and Muggia.
Throughout the centuries, Friuli has developed a deeply-rooted autonomous culture; this is seen in the widespread use of a language, Friulian, of Ladino origin, as well as in the great attention paid to the many local traditions and the participation in many rites and ceremonial events, whose significance goes well beyond the aspect of mere folklore.
At Epiphany there are the bonfires (called "pignar�l" in the vernacular of Udine, "pan e vin" in the Pordenone area, to give but the most common names) intended to favour the earth's fertility. Again for Epiphany, at Cividale del Friuli, the "Messa dello Spadone" ("Broadsword Mass") is celebrated, in memory of the investiture that the patriarch received at the hands of the Emperor. During the mass the deacon greets the crowd with the sword - dating from 1366, as it belonged to the patriarch of Aquileia Marquardo of Randeck. At Gemona, the "Messa del Tallero", ("Dollar Mass") is celebrated; in it, during the offertory the mayor gives the celebrant a dollar minted in 1780 under the reign of Maria Theresa of Austria. At Pordenone (but the tradition has recently been revived also in other towns) halfway through Lent the Trial and funeral pyre of the Old Woman is celebrated; this ritual is also related to the rite of purification by fire, where an effigy of the "Old Woman" represents the evils of the year gone by. In Carnia, the rites of fire coincide with the patron saint's day, or with a day devoted to some saint near the summer solstice; the launching of "lis cidulis", flaming wheels, is accompanied by wishes for prosperity.
Some religious rites, such as the Rogations, have almost disappeared, together with the peasant civilization they were part of. But some processions have survived: for Corpus Domini and the holy days devoted to the Virgin Mary and the Saints. The Kiss of the Crosses, which takes place for Ascension in the parish church of Zuglio, in Carnia, is an important procession; the processional Crosses, all bedecked, of all the "daughter" parish churches, come together and bow down in an act of tribute to the "mother church". There are marine processions at Marano for the feast day of Saints Vito, Modesto and Crescenzio, and at Grado for the Perd�n of Barbana (the statue of the Virgin is carried from Grado to the sanctuary on the little island of Barbana, accompanied by a boat procession).
The custom of celebrating holy performances on Good Friday is becoming more and more common. Of medieval origin, these are a mixture of sacred ritual and theatre. In Friuli, the most ancient and best known is that of Erto e Casso, in the Upper Valcellina, which the whole town takes part in.
A much less religious but also very ancient event is the Sagra dei osei (Bird Festival), held in August in Sacile. Many people go there at dawn to hear the birds sing and to see the singing competitions between birds and decoy song-birds of all sorts. This event recalls the right granted to the city in 1351 by the patriarch of Aquileia to hold a market of birds caught in the nearby woods of Cansiglio.
Many of the ancient traditions, understood as ways or needs of living, are to be found not only in the festivals but also in the arts and crafts, using cloth and furniture in Carnia and wooden objects in Valcellina (the "sed�ns" that the women, the "sedon�re", sold around Italy and abroad), and objects and tools made of wrought iron and copper.
As regards the province of Trieste, on the Carso every year the rite of the Carsic Wedding is held, celebrated according to the old traditions.
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Wish I knew how to say it in Friulian but English will have to do: a most Happy Birthday to you. Hope you and your lovely family have a great day.
Hi Janine, Great info about Friuli !! (by the way: we will keep on biking and add more - sweet - memories of the Netherlands on the page). Jaap
Thank you for taking the time to explain about the area...its history and culture. Lovely photographs too........thank you.
Fantastic website and information. Thank you for sharing great information. SSSony12
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Tunisia is located on the northern coast of Africa, Tunisia has boundaries with Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east.
The Atlas Mountains divide the country into two regions, the well-watered north and the semi-arid south. The northern region, which contains the Kroumirie Forest, Bizerte, and the Medjerda River Valley, is further divided into three subregions: the northwest, with extensive cork forests; the north central, with its fertile grasslands, and the northeast from Tunis to Cap Bon, noted for its livestock, citrus fruits and garden produce.
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Groups all across the area will gather today to remember this country's veterans, but the families of those who served their country need not wait for Veterans Day to see the memory of their loved ones honored.
A variety of honors are available to deceased veterans, not the least of which is an Honor Guard at a veteran's funeral.
Air Force Tech Sgt. Steven Cook, who is the superintendent of the Honor Guard at Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis, N.M., said that many veterans and their families are not aware of the honors available for their service.
"We don't get nearly as many requests for an Honor Guard as I would expect," Cook said. "I guess a lot of people just don't know what they are entitled to."
Until recently, veterans who served on active duty were entitled to an Honor Guard at their funerals, but it was based on the availability of personnel to perform the ceremony, Cook said.
That changed in January 2000 when the Congress passed a law making the Honor Guard mandatory for every eligible veteran whose family requests the ceremony.
Honorably discharged veterans are entitled to a two-person detail to fold a flag and play "Taps" at the funeral, regardless of when or how long the veteran served, Cook said.
Veterans who retired from active military service are entitled to a 10-person detail, including a firing party, flag folding and "Taps." Active duty personnel who die on duty receive a 20-person detail.
Cook said the family of a veteran interested in an Honor Guard should ask their funeral home, which should be able to arrange the ceremony.
National Guard and Reserve veterans are eligible for Honor Guard services, as well.
Veterans are also entitled to interment in a national cemetery if they so choose.
Jim Van Marter, a veterans' counselor with the Texas Veterans Commission in Amarillo, said plots in national cemeteries cannot be reserved, but the families of honorably discharged active duty military personnel can request a plot at the time of the veteran's death. National Guard and Reserve personnel can receive a plot if they were eligible for or were receiving retirement benefits at the time of death.
Space in all national cemeteries is available, although plots in Arlington National Cemetery are limited.
Some veterans are also entitled to a monetary benefit to help defray the cost of burials and plots.
The family of deceased veterans should contact the national cemetery of choice to arrange for a funeral, or they can call the Texas Veterans Commission at (806) 355-9703, extension 7051, to ask about interment or other veterans' benefits.
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I have seasoned the bread pan, and generously apply oil before putting the dough in (note: I use no-knead method and let my bread rise in the pan, then put it straight into oven). The bread itself turns out great, and white bread does not stick. However my whole wheat honey bread sticks no matter what I do. I suspect this is due to sugar in the honey, but am not sure. Is there anything else I can do to prevent sticking?
If you are having trouble with honey-wheat bread sticking in your cast iron pan, there are several things worth trying:
Honey-wheat breads are going to be inherently more sticky than a pure white bread, especially because of the sugar, and because the whole wheat bran in the loaf tends to cut the gluten strands, making it hard to get a tightly stretched gluten network on the outside of your loaf, which is one of the things that makes it less likely to stick.
Another thought would be to try removing the dough from the pan, preheating the pan, and then tossing the dough back in. Adding food to a hot pan will reduce sticking, as will ensuring the food you're adding to the hot pan isn't cold.
It may sound a little weird, but it's pretty standard to get cast iron nice and hot before adding food, for that purpose. Haven't tried it with bread, but it'd be worth a shot.
coat the pan with butter or crisco and heat up to temp first, then let your food get to room temp before adding to pan. should eliminate sticking problems. flax seed oil has been known to flake off in food, it also has a lower smoke point and will not hold up well in seasoning over time with cast iron, use pure lard or crisco and you will have much better results


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For the past few months my cardio has consisted of doing a 6 k run in around 30 mins, out in the open, 6 days a week. This used to kill me when i first started it, but now i hardly feel it, and thus feel that it probably doesnt cause much in the way of weight loss anymore. So i was thinking bout changing it up, but am not too sure whats the best change to make? Should up the distance or keep the same distance but try to run faster and faster? which is better for fat loss?
P.S. My 'HIIT' consists of 2 days of soccer every week...
Increase running distance or speed?
Without knowing anything about you, goals, body type etc.. I would say try to run a certain distance, as fast as you can, but aiming for about 30 minutes of cardio.
So, increase distance slightly, and try to cover that in less than 30 minutes. I say this because for this type of cardio, I think ~30min is probably the right amount of time for an average person.
Or, what I would personally do is split into 20 minute HIIT (with warmup and cooldown) and longer 45-60 minute runs.
Soccer is not HIIT. You should be pooped after 15-20 minutes, otherwise the intensity is not high enough. It's certainly counts as cardio of course.
I think you should do HIIT.
I do cardio like I would newbie weight training. For example, each lap is a quarter mile. So, 3x10 laps, inbetween the sets of 10 laps about 5-10 minutes of rest. And inbetween every lap I rest for a minute. Then the next day I increase it to 3x11, next day 3x12, etc.My journal (funny IMHO :<) http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=108474801
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Speed is irrelevant when it comes to calorie expenditure and that's what we're trying to achieve here, right?
Besides that running faster will impair your recovery (on a diet overtraining legs is a real issue), walking is far easier. It doesn't imply the whole psychology of "I have to workout, I don't want to, GRR".
Walking for 1h = 30m pretty hard jog.
So wrong for so many reasons. Speed is completely relevant to the number of calories you burn when running. I have no idea where you got the walking for 1hr = 30mins pretty hard jog statistic from, but imo it is so far from true. Simply run for 5 mins on any treadmill at say 8km/h, and 12km/h and see the difference in the total calories burnt.
My advice would be to mix up your runs. HIIT is fantastic for burning fat, but then again going for a nice long run will also show results. I would say that you should take the number of runs down to say 4 days, and then just having a couple more off days to fully recover. Also on those "off days" you can go for a walk.
I do 2, 1 hour runs a week, at a fairly high intensity. Then I do one of the hill running programs on the running maching in the gym for 24 mins. I find that the incline and decline running is alot harder than flat running. I get my version of HIIT doing boxing once or twice a week.
Good luck buddy, and remember, the body reacts well to change. Whatever you do, keep mixing it up.
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i highly doubt that's true. probably more like 1hr walking = 10min jogging, and who wants to waste hours on that boring crap? sure jogging is harder and you may not want to do it but at least it's over quicker and it makes you feel good when you're done. walking for that long would just make me bored out of my mind so i'd hate it even more than jogging. imo, walking instead of jogging is lazy and stupid in most cases
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if the distances are the same, I've heard it's pretty close in how much energy it takes to move your body, as long as you're going a pretty constant rate. I think that's kind of hogwash, plus I don't have the time to walk 4-6 miles to see how it feels. Also, people's definition of jog are different.. What's a hard jog?
thanks for the replies guys, i have incorporated HIIT in the past, like doing 30 sec sprints followed by 1 min walk. Repeat 8 times. The reason why i stopped was that i didnt know if i was doing it right. For e.g. i couldnt sprint the whole 30 secs by the third 'sprint', and my 7th and 8th 'sprints' were mainly just fast jogs, so i wasnt too sure if that was considered HIIT, and so stopped doing it. I also want to incorporate some uphill sprints in my routine, but am not too sure what angle is considered good? i dont live in a particularly hilly area, so the most uphill that i can get is a 500m stretch at about 20-25degree elevation, would this be enough to try uphill sprints (i wanna try them cause i heard they are good for improving speed).
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Isn't it something like this: Doesn't matter how fast you go at it you kinda burn the same calories for a set distance? run 3 miles in 20 min and lets say you burn 500calories...or jog the 3 miles in 60 min you'll still burn 500 calories.
But then again with the running your heart rate goes mad so you will prolly develop a much better condition than the granny pace?
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OFC. what I said was a ballpark estimate for me... 1 hour of walking burns 250 calories. For me if I burn 8 calories/min. with jogging I'm WORKING, it's getting discomfortable... 8 x 30 min = 240 calories. I use the most conservative walking burn I could found on the internet: www.caloriesperhour.com
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Actually this is not true. If it were as simply as moving mass from A to B, it would only take 2 candy bar's worth of food to climb Mt Everest. Most of the energy expenditure comes from inefficiency in movement. So even for the same distance, the movement that is most efficient will burn less calories than one that is less efficient.
Generally (but also not necessarily) running is much less efficient than walking.
If I got on a bike and cycled the 3 miles nice and leisurely on the flat I would burn less calories than running, even though I have to move myself AND the bike the 3 miles.
There have been some studies on this too. I don't remember the details of how different the energy expenditures were, but decent paced walking might be something like 60-80kcal/mile, running more like 100-120kcal/mile.
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Guess I'll go for 30k;I ROI 5k+
Okay some of the other reasons; your weight will have an affect on how many calories you will burn per session. If you are carrying more weight for example then it is "harder" to run. Hence why long distance runners are so skinny. And also why people run with backpacks/weighted vests on to make a workout harder.
The person running. Simply put, each person will burn a different number of calories over the same distance due to genetics, metabolism and many other factors.
Fitness. I will burn less calories if I am fitter and hence my body is used to doing a certain speed/distance, it will become adjusted. This is one of the principles behind newbie gains. If you are simply going through the paces when running, you will be burning less than if you push yourself.
As for some of the other comments that have been made. Manic keep up the sprints, even if you are only seeming to go a a fast jog by the end, so long as you are pushing your body to the max then you will be gaining benefits. Hill running is great, but if you want to get up your sprint speed, don't overlook things such as plyometrics. Mixing up shorter and longer sprints. And weight training for your legs and getting some explosive power! Plenty of great online articles on other sites and on here I'm sure as well.
As for the walking v run, I'm sure it all depends on what you class as running, and how fast you walk. I am not 100% sure I am right on this, but I don't think the number of calories stay fixed for a set distance. I still think it matters how fast you run. As manofsteel said, harder workout uses more calories. I take that as a given tbh, that you run faster you burn more calories. If you work harder you will get better results.
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In which case you might just burn more calories with a very fast walk than a light jog for the same distance. But that's getting into semantics. At the end of the day, burning calories is the most important form a fat-loss point of view.
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That is very true. Power walking (I think also known as speed walking) is a different form of cardio to running - as seen by Hal in Malcomn in the Middle; very funny. Also another reason that can affect cardio is the physical size of the person. By this I mean that length of each stride, a taller person can take slower but longer steps during a run, versus a quicker but shorter length. But this in itself affects the amount of energy an individual will burn. I remember a documentary on Ricky Hatton and his 5 mile runs using small steps so he can run further.
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It really depends on your goals. I love speed but I more love the distances so really it is a personal issue.
One thing i can tell you from trying both is you will get hungrier by adding distance. Much more then adding speed. Adding speed is almost a natural outgrowth of the run wheeras adding distance changes the work load every time.
Once you have fiddled with both then try adding speed to your distance runs for a reral bastard of a workout.
Nothing like a half marathon while pushing yourself the whole way to run faster. You can do it, just unleash whats inside and go for it."To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other."-- Carlos Castaneda
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Increase the distance but slow your speed
When you can do that distance increase the speed to what it was before
If that even gets too easy then increase the speed a little and see if you can make it the 6k or a little less.
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A friend of mine once gave me some great advice and I think it is really useful.... do whatever you feel like doing.... he advocated that if you are tired and not really in the mood, just to do the minimum cardio eg 25mins, and if you felt great to do more, even if you were only planning on doing say 5k. I used this and one day I managed to run a half marathon when I was only planning on doing 25mins on the treadmill. I felt fantastic and it was really easy to run. (This friend subsequently managed to run a 3 hr 19min London marathon on his first attempt!)
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The Soviet Union won the football tournament riding the talents of their gifted goalkeeper Lev Yashin a man who went on to become a legend in the game and who was known as the "Black Spider".
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For the opening ceremony the sun was blazing in Melbourne and 225 people collapsed, among them the leader of the American delegation.
Hungarian water-polo player Ervin Zador goes out of the swimming pool with the face cover of blood after having been wounded during a clash with USSR team 06 December 1956 during the semi-final of the Melbourne Olympics water-polo event. In final, Hungary won the gold in front of Yugoslaviaa (silver) and USSR (bronze).
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