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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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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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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  [ Subscribe to our podcast via ←This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast applications.] [ Direct Link to MP3 File ] This week we have our longest, and...
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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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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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