user centred design
The city as interface (part two)
Aug 18th
Following on from part one, this post looks at two ways in which cities resemble modern interactive interfaces – adaptiveness and feedback. How does the city offer different experiences to different users? And when do users of the city unwittingly become a part of its interface?
What UX can learn from product strategy, and vice versa
Aug 9th
Dirk Kneymeyer of Involution Studios writes on his blog about how he’s losing faith in UX. He’s reacting primarily to an article by Whitney Hess characterising start-ups as being focused on the what rather than the who, why or how. One of Kneymeyer’s central points is that product strategy and user experience are ultimately different domains, [...]
The city as interface (part one)
Aug 2nd
The modern city is a habitat, like all human settlements. But it is something more too: it’s an interface, allowing its users to interact with and contribute to the business of human civilisation. This is the first of two posts exploring this way of thinking about the city.
The keyboard is not going away
Apr 8th
The clamour generated by the iPad has reached fever pitch, with some claiming that it means the end of the keyboard. But it doesn’t. All it tells us is that computers are playing more roles in our lives than ever before.
Readability of online text
Nov 10th
A 2005 study looking at the readability of online text found that no single layout was ideal. Faster readers prefer two-column, full-justified text: slower readers benefited from single-column, left-justified.
Ergonomics for interaction designers
Jan 26th
This series of articles from Rob Tannen at Designing for Humans discusses how a knowledge of ergonomics can be increasingly helpful to people working in interaction design. Ergonomics considers the suitability of physically extant products to the human form in all its varieties. As a result it’s not historically been very relevant to interaction designers, [...]
I’ve seen the future and it’s… a bit like MacOS X
Aug 11th
My friend Lindsey sent me this link earlier on today. It’s a video exploring a future user experience concept, developed by Adaptive Path for Mozilla Labs. Jill looks at the New York Times website In the video Jill, the principal user, makes use of a number of futuristic interface devices to: Interact with a friend [...]
