Jun
4
Flash Catalyst Video Tour
June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
All these new tools coming out of Adobe Labs! It is making it easier and easier for designers and developers to communicate easily with each other. My hope is that it will lead to better collaboration which brings better products for humans.
More information can be found on the Adobe Site (added since the video that [...]
May
19
Refactoring with User Experience and IT Structure
May 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I read an article by Peter Hornsby on UXmatters talking about utilizing the software code revisionist method of code refactoring. The idea is to make the code easier for software engineers to understand and work with. There is no change to the functioning of the software but the code gets cleaned up and easier to [...]
Mar
14
UX in an Agile Development Process
March 14, 2009 | 1 Comment
I had a conversation with a colleague yesterday about Agile development environments and how it is difficult to evangelize usability and design with UX in mind. While I argued that it was completely possible to keep usability as a priority while still scrumming constantly and pushing the envelope of development, I realize that in larger [...]
Mar
12
Sixth Sense Seamless Technology
March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
Ted continues to be cutting edge and exciting.
The idea of having pertinent, semantically appropriate information literally at your fingertips in the moments you need it to make a decision about your next action is what we really want. This technology could make it happen. Its called Sixth Sense and is being developed by Fluid Interfaces [...]
Mar
3
Reviewing a Website
March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment
As usability consultants, we are often asked to look at websites and give our ‘opinion’. It is important that we keep the most important factors in mind when looking at a website from the outside when WE are the users. A great article about reviewing websites on UX Matters.
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/02/reviewing-user-interfaces.php
Mar
1
Touch Interfaces On More Devices
March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
While iPhones and HTC G1 may be the market focus of touch technology, the touch and gestural interface is continuing to expand and industry leaders have plans for more devices and applications utilizing the touch technology.
A great article from Information Week interviewed several industry leaders and gives a great overview of the direction that touch [...]
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 [...]
