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Touch Screens with Pop-up Buttons
When touch buttons also pop-up ..."Touch-screen technology has become wildly popular, thanks to smart phones designed for nimble fingers. But most touch screens have a major drawback: you need to keep...
View ArticleKnowledge Navigator Deconstructed - Building an Envisionment
Worth a read if you missed the original ..."Last week we reprinted an article discussing the 3 steps design teams take when creating an experience vision to guide the direction of design toward their...
View ArticleIs Interaction Design a dead-end job?
Is everyone an interaction designer? ..."IDEO’s Bill Moggridge made a comment last week after a screening of Objectified that hit close to home. To paraphrase, he said interaction design has become...
View ArticleTen inexpensive tips to improve user experience
Quick tips for better UX ..."At TechCrunch’s Geek ‘n Rolla event last week, I managed to have a quick chat with Leisa Reichelt from Disambiguity, following her great presentation about “Why you can’t...
View ArticleDoes Apple Netbook repudiation signal a shift?
Apple does not strengthen the notbook category ...?Apple COO Tim Cook's recent comments about Netbooks may reflect an incipient movement to look beyond this category of laptops--now more than a year...
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Usability Study: Men Need Speed
Designing for gender ..."The importance of download speed, for most Web users, has long been established (King 2008). Fast response times foster higher flow states (Skadberg & Kimmel 2004), higher...
View ArticleClose To The User: User Centered Design Improves Workflows In Radiology
Applying User Centered Design to medical equipmrnt ...The software developers at Siemens Healthcare have come up with something special for customers employing Siemens PACS (Picture Archiving and...
View ArticleOn Engineering and Design: An Open Letter
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user-experience designers to learn to appreciate one another. "Well-intentioned engineers often ask me how they can become...
View ArticleBayCHI Monthly Program
"Tuesday, May 12, 2009"The Unexpected Joys and Sorrows of Translating In-person Experiences to On-Line ToolsLuke Hohmann, EnthiosysInnovation Games were originally designed to be in-person,...
View ArticleJakob Nielsen Critiques Twitter
Jakob Nielsen on Twitter ..."Not everyone is hearts and flowers over Twitter. Web usability consultant Jakob Nielsen discusses the hazards and limitations of tweeting.Few would dispute that Twitter is...
View ArticleApproaching Design: Advice on how to really rock in UI / UX design
On my honor I will do my best? (Boy Scout Oath) ..."The longer I do this job, the more I think that there are certain qualities, or attitudes that can make a real difference to ones ability to get...
View ArticleThe poverty of user-centered design
Everything is user-centered ..."In the dim distant past, some of us used to distinguish our work from the masses by declaring proudly that we were ‘user-centered’. At one time this actually meant you...
View ArticleTop-10 Information Architecture (IA) Mistakes
Jakob Nielsen discusses structure and navigation in IA ..."Structure and navigation must support each other and integrate with search and across subsites. Complexity, inconsistency, hidden options, and...
View ArticleOn Engineering and Design: An Open Letter
Matching the talent and knowledge with the task ..."Well-intentioned engineers often ask me how they can become designers, or how they can "do" design. A typical question might be something like this:...
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How technology improves usability: the Nokia 8810
Facing pragmatic problems in need of UI design ..."Remember when mobile phones still had external antennas? Everyone thought they were annoying as hell, because, for example, you could not put your...
View ArticleMaking $10,000 a Pixel: Optimizing Thumbnail Images in Search Results
The thumbnail image in search results ..."In search results, the old adage a picture is worth a thousand words rings true. When it comes to making your search results more efficient to use, more...
View ArticleRefactoring the User Experience
Understanding the conscept of refactoring ...The ability to take a broad view of the world and incorporate lessons learned from other disciplines distinguishes the best practitioners in any field. As...
View ArticleAs Consumers' Demands Change, Designers Are All in the Behavior Business
"Over the past few months, I've been busy riling up the design community with a theory that designers are now in the "behavior business," and I plan to explore this further in my posts in the coming...
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Great Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen
Recently, in a set of interviews we conducted with avid users of Netflix.com, the online DVD rental web site, we asked "What are the things you like best about the site?" Lots, apparently.They liked...
View ArticleUsing Verbs As Nouns in User Interfaces
UX Roles in Organizations ..."Q: My company is developing software that, among other things, manages large amounts of member information. This is enterprise-level software, so we assume there will be...
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