Friend and fellow user experience blogger, Nikolas Laufer-Edel's latest article Leopard rethinks the OS, but this cat still has some spots to show brings up a very interesting idea:
Is Apple teaching its users to be competent with low profile keyboards to get them ready for touch screen technology on the desktop?
Here are the slides from the Usability 2.0: Usability as a Conversation talk I gave last night at the VanUE.
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Just wanted to let all y'all know that I will be speaking at the VanUE event on Tuesday October 16th. The talk will discuss the changes we've made in our usability process at ADG and the impact that it's had on both our work and the client's experience.
The official abstract:
Ever done a usability test, gone to the trouble of writing that killer report and seen the results go nowhere? Ever have to read someone else usability test report and think you’ve found the cure for insomnia? At Analytic Design Group we’ve experienced both frustrations and have come up with a better way, something we call Usability 2.0. This talk reviews how we’ve overhauled the process and come up with better ways to:
- find participants
- collect data
- report our findings
Our clients have gone from reluctant readers of our reports to enthusiastic participants in the process. We’ve improved the client user experience and think that because of their far deeper engagement we’re producing much higher quality analysis and reporting that in turn results in a greater improvements to the end user’s customer experience as well.
Hope to see everyone out. It should be a good evening of user experience fun!
Happy Webbies are like Happy Bunnies, but for web nerds. One day we were forced to replace our fridge magnets with some custom ones. Now we’ve decided to share some of our favorites as desktops. More are on the way!
via www.happywebbies.com
The IxDA has announced its first ever conference, IxDA Interaction 08! The conference will be held in Savannah, Georgia, February 8-10.
The program looks like it will be a great event, just waiting for registration to open.
Until then, check out the conference site at: interaction80.ixda.org.
The Apple Industrial Design team has done it again. This time with a new keyboard that is stunningly beautiful.
This only makes the wait for iPhones in Canada all the more unbearable. Check out the iPhone NES Emulator!
Design inspiration is always an interesting topic. Who knows where our best ideas come from? They can come when your sleeping, driving, showering or just about anywhere your not doing what it is your supposed to be doing.
Jeff Veen posted an interesting (and short) article about how he found the inspiration for the graphs in the newest release of the Google Analytics app.
Jeff Veen - Raiders of the Lost Ark and mystery inspiration
So by now most of you have heard about Google Gears. If not here's the deal:
"Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline."
Google Gears is a fully functioning relational database that lives within a browser plugin and gives programmers access to it to it's structure. This allows for off-line editing of data and post-off-line syncing.
So the question is: What does Google Gears mean for Interaction Designers who design web applications?
