My team successfully finished the recruiting effort for four focus groups we are running on-site here at VMworld 2006. Today we met many nice people that all really love VMware's products and a few more that had never heard of user research or a focus group. We took the time to explain our goals of better understanding them and how they use the product and most people then decided to make time to participate. The whole team is looking forward to the actual focus groups themselves. If you've signed up, we'll see you there!

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Okay, so I'm a little slow at getting around to blogging. For that I apologize. I'm still trying to get used to putting myself out there on a regular basis. I promise I'll start posting more often in the future.

Data: A Small Sampling

As promised, I've been off doing a bit of informal research around exactly what text label different web sites and applications use when asking for the unique identifier that represents a particular user account at log on time. In Part #1 I made the blanket statement that the world is very inconsistent indeed. Even among a single category of similar sites or applications the text actually varies quite a bit. Well, here is what I found.

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I recently had the pleasure of debating the proper way to label the field on a log in screen that is used to collect the user's unique identifier. When I arrived on the scene two very specific choices were being argued. The first was user name as a single word with only an uppercase letter u at the beginning. The second was user name as two separate words where the word user gets capatilized and the word name does not. In both instances we all agreed, mostly, that the label should end with a colon. For now, I'll save the debate about the use of the colon in field labels for a later date.

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