Imagine being able to move objects with only your thoughts. Simply thinking a thought, and then an object does your bidding. For many humans struck with paralysis such as Lou Gehrig Disease or Locked In Syndrome, this isn’t only a sci-fi pipe dream, but a much hoped reality.
Now it is a reality. [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Research, Usability on November 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
MarketingProfs.com had a fantastic article on how to market to digital natives. These digital natives can be youths who were raised with these new communication mediums to web workers who are immersed in the various technologies and tools.
The article links to this great analysis of how digital natives think differently from others. [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Marketing Strategy, Research, Social Media, Usability, Web Business on November 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
The 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination process is being fiercely contested by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Both candidates are using the Internet to help their campaigns woo volunteers and campaign contributions. But who has the better Website?
Judges from the Web Marketing Association WebAwards have stated their opinion on the matter: Obama wins [...]
Filed under: Behind the Scenes, Media, Research, Social Media, Social Networking, Usability, User Experience, Web Business on April 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
November 8th was World Usability Day –”founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.” At its foundation is the belief that technology should make things easier rather than harder, more complicated or stressful. Yet, when you see your colleague whip out their [...]
Filed under: General, Usability, Web Business on November 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
Earlier this week Amazon released Kindle. Within minutes, the web was filled with reviews, mostly negative. Frankly, we don’t care about those reviews, mainly because most of them are from people who have never used one. More importantly, we don’t care about reviews. A review is simply one’s person opinion, and [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Mobile, Usability, User Experience, Web Design on November 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If you laugh at this, you are an usability professional.
Filed under: Usability, User Experience on July 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
I greatly appreciate graphical visualizations that make data-rich information look simple and elegant. Several years ago I attended a seminar presented by Edward Tufte seminar, Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. Tufte has been hailed as “The Leonardo da Vinci of [...]
Filed under: Information Architecture, Usability, User Experience, Web Design on July 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
Microsoft recently announced the release of their $10,000 behemoth Surface. The release of the iPhone is just a week away. And this past week Microsoft Research Cambridge’s Steve Hodges has taken multi-touch interface and applied it to a laptop. But you haven’t hear the last about this year’s buzzword [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Usability, User Experience on June 24th, 2007 | No Comments »
USAToday recently released it’s new redesign. While the site touts numerous improvements, it instead has mostly garnered snide comments (which, in bad form, required a lengthy user sign-up to “join the community”). To eloquently summarize user “chuck sample” “The new site honks.” Hopefully the editors planned to truly consider this feedback with an iterative design. No one gets it right the first time, and thankfully USAToday as a lot of very vocal readers.
Filed under: Social Media, Usability, User Experience on March 4th, 2007 | No Comments »
The field of interactive design once only required someone had working knowledge of the “web”. They were called “web designers” and you often heard of someone’s nephew or neice willing to do it for drinking money. Now, true interactive design requires a level of focus that few truly master. Thinking about it, I don’t think you can ever really master interactive design. Consider the following:
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Information Architecture, Usability, User Experience on January 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
