Jan
23
Best Technology of Bush Years
January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
With Bush finally leaving office, now is a good time to do a quick Tip ‘O’ the Hat to those gadgets and widgets and useful technology that the Bush Administration was able to put in place.
The FBI has built a Most-Wanted widget.
The TSA has an employee blog about security.
The State Department has an internal Diplopedia [...]
Jan
23
New Obama White House Website
January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
It is obvious that President Obama’s team already knew what they were going to do with the White House website before they got there.
It looks great and is very usable, informative and elegant.
Jan
21
New Tools for Visualizing Information
January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
Visualization of Obama’s Inaugural Speech. You are able to interact and adjust the visualization, not just a static image.
This is just one of many visualizations available on the IBM Many Eyes site.
I am intrigued with the dynamic abilities of programs and powerful computers to integrate and display complex relational databases as well as simpler data [...]
Jan
21
New Usability Tools
January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
The ability to do usability testing more naturally (not in a lab) as well as get more data (not a one hour session) have been issues that usability professionals have dealt with for years. Leave it to the innovators at Mozilla Labs to help get us out of the rut of lab testing.
Soon we will [...]
Jan
20
Spatial Integration of UI
January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
There have been many implementations of gestural interactions with computers and data.
Oblong has g-speak
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Microsoft Surface
Indeed, the hippest phone around, the iPhone is exciting mostly (and arguably) because it provides the ability to interact with information more realistically and naturally.
What we are missing is the ability of the information [...]
Jan
15
Best of CES 2009
January 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
While Innovations (for whom I was a judge) has their choices of the ‘Best of CES 2009′ I have my own choices that may or may not agree with them. they are my personal biases about what will be most useful and/or fun for me to use.
I was able to meet quite a few of [...]
Jan
7
Crayon Physics Game
January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.
This game reminds me of the Trace game for the iPhone
However it looks more intricate. I am hoping that it will be engineered for the iPhone or other mobile touch screen devices besides the tablet shown in the video.
Jan
7
New Mac Products for 2009
January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Macworld is where Apple likes to introduce their products just a couple days earlier than CES…just to, you know, set themselves apart.
There are new accessories like mice, chargers, notebook cases and hands free bluetooth accessories for the car.
New software was introduced including all new iLife 09 with photo, movie, garageband and web applications that include [...]
Jan
6
Focus on Usability in 2009
January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
In years past, the Consumer Electronics Show has been a showcase for excess. Huge televisions, products that are well out of the price range of the average consumer and were often rushed to release in time so that the manufacturers could make a bug splash at the show. They didn’t spend much time on usability [...]
Jan
2
Customizable Keyboard. Ultimate Gamer Usability
January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Although I do most of my gaming on my “antiquated” PS2, I have been known to play some Doom, Diablo and World of Warcraft on my PC. Since I do not have one of those fancy controllers for my PC, I have been relegated to the keyboard for my action and have been frustrated with [...]
