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Nikiforos Karamanis @technorasis

Senior User Experience Designer at European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) #ux4science

Joined August 2013
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Nikiforos Karamanis @technorasis
12 Jul 2023
Today is my last day at @emblebi. I've been fortunate to have worked with many talented people so I've written a retrospective of my 9 years there to thank them for their support and highlight the main outcomes of our collaboration: linkedin.com/pulse/9-years-e…

9 years at EMBL-EBI: a retrospective

I’ll be leaving EMBL-EBI soon so I took the opportunity to reflect on the last 9 years in this exceptional organisation. I was fortunate to work with many outstanding colleagues during that period so...

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This wrapping paper has guides on the back side, which can be very useful to people like me who can’t cut a straight line 🎁🙏 #gooddesign
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EMBL-EBI Training @EBItraining
5 Jun 2023
Joining @technorasis at this week's #digitalaccessibility webinar is #UX Designer Carla Oliveira. They'll be sharing the improvement journey as well as the lessons learnt along the way. Registration is free: ebi.ac.uk/training/events/we… In association with @EOSCFuture.
EMBL-EBI Training @EBItraining
1 Jun 2023
Interested in how to make websites more digitally accessible?  Sign up for our free webinar on 8 June: ebi.ac.uk/training/events/we… Speaker: @technorasis, Senior User Experience (UX) Designer at @emblebi This webinar has been developed as part of the @EOSCFuture project.
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EMBL-EBI Training @EBItraining
1 Jun 2023
Interested in how to make websites more digitally accessible?  Sign up for our free webinar on 8 June: ebi.ac.uk/training/events/we… Speaker: @technorasis, Senior User Experience (UX) Designer at @emblebi This webinar has been developed as part of the @EOSCFuture project.
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Lovely talk by @francisrowland of @Nexer_Digital on creating viable, usable, desirable, and sustainable scientific tools & services. Reminded me of our work together at @emblebi and acknowledged how the UXLS community of the @PistoiaAlliance fosters precompetitive collaboration.
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Great day out at the medieval reenactment at @EHKenilworth Castle today with dancing and a marching army.
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Lovely short break in Norfolk including seals in Horsey Gap, tigers at Thrigby, horse riding in Filby, a boat trip in the Broads, adventures in Bewilderwood and afternoons on the beach.
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Many thanks to @ChrisSpalton for his advice on places to go and things to do!
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The EMBL-EBI home page ranked in the top 5% among the one million most visited home pages in @webaim's 2022 #accessibility report. This year we expect to rank even higher, together with the very few other pages that do not have any errors. 1/2
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Read my article on how we improved the #accessibility of our site and the terrific work by my colleagues at @emblebi and @embl in this area: linkedin.com/pulse/improving… 2/2

Improving the accessibility of the EMBL-EBI website

In this short article, I share how we have been making the case for accessibility and how we have made the EMBL-EBI website more accessible.

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Now that my colleagues are back from holidays I’m reminded that my job is mainly planning, coordination and facilitation 🤔
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I was delighted to present how we have been applying #uxdesign @emblebi in a webinar hosted by National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) and @scilifelab earlier this week. Many thanks to Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström for inviting me to give this talk! 1/2
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I presented a case study from my earlier work for @OpenTargets to introduce the basic principles of #uxdesign and inspire others to apply them to their own projects. YouTube recording: youtube.com/watch?v=35R8a1Xt… Presentation with links to resources: doi.org/10.17044/scilifelab.… 2/2

UX Design at EMBL-EBI: A case study introducing first principles,...

Recorded presentation from the webinar User Experience (UX) Design ...

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Odd week as I had a tooth extracted on Tuesday, my youngest son was ill on Wednesday and I ended up unwell myself today. But listening to @eltonofficial and watching the outrageous costumes from the early 80s made me feel like a little kid: youtu.be/ZHwVBirqD2s
1/4 Question for @cjforms & anyone else who has any insights: I understand that statements such "Hybrid working supports my work-life balance" with an agree-disagree Lickert scale as the answer lead respondents to chose "agree" in a survey (due to acquiescence bias) but...
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3/4 "not at all" vs "very well" looks less understandable and fluent than the "agree" vs "disagree" answer and may not be applicable to all questions in the survey. Also...
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4/4 asking "How satisfied are you with how hybrid working supports your work-life balance?" sounds even more complicated. It seems to be leading too as it implies that hybrid working does indeed support work-life balance. Any thoughts?
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Beating the post-conference blues with a coffee on my new #uxls2022 mug. Many thanks to @Paula_deMatos and the @PistoiaAlliance, my colleagues in the organising committee as well as our speakers and participants for making this unique event a huge success. See you again soon!
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A great talk on #colour and #contrast by @think_ui in the #uxls2022 conference by the @PistoiaAlliance!
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