Sep 11th 09
Make IT Easy – The Benefits of User-Centered Design
Technology does not operate in a vacuum. The value of your website, corporate intranet, and internal business applications will not be determined by the designers and developers, but by the users. The users – the PEOPLE – will decide how often they want to use your intranet…purchase from your website…leverage your portal. Give them an easy, intuitive experience and you will...
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Sep 2nd 09
show-me: Water Consumption in the Shower at a Glance
The scientific paper “show-me”: Water Consumption at a Glance to Promote Water Conservation in the Shower [acm.org, ACM members only] aims to encourage sustainable behavior by visualizing the actual water consumption when and where it matters: during and immediately in the vicinity of the showering itself.
The researchers built a prototype to study the potential of such a feedback device...
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Aug 30th 09
Userability #13 – Renaissance Man
This week: how many hats can one UX practitioner actually wear? How do you market a wide range of skills in the job market?
Duration: 14m | 23 MB
Recorded: July, 2009 Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer
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This week we have our longest, and...
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Aug 14th 09
NEC Reinforces Human Interface Research and Development
NEC Corporation’s development of easy-to-use human interfaces, part of its Central Research Laboratories’ global “open innovation”, has taken an important step forward through strengthened cooperation with Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Carnegie Mellon University.
This collaboration with leading human interface research centers provides additional support for NEC’s...
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Aug 13th 09
The Mobile App User Experience
“The 1.5 billion downloads thus far from Apple’s App Store clearly demonstrate a User Experience in high demand.” But why are native mobile applications such a desirable User Experience? Two factors come to mind:
Applications by their nature are task focused. They consist of optimized user interfaces for handling certain types of actions and data. In other words, a singular focus on...
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