Category HCD / UXD
Homo Conexus
Ruthless focus on the customer [Business Week]
New European interaction design institute
Brand experience in user experience design [UX Matters]
Britons ‘dependent on mobile use’ [BBC]
Saving the world, one video game at a time [New York Times]
Washers and dryers air messages to PCs, TVs, phones [Associated Press]
Whatever happened to… the smartphone? [The Register]
Business Week special report on tech toys
Kitchen cabinet: new ideas for connecting people and politicians
Real Time Rome: MIT reveals Rome’s live traffic info via mobile phones
Don Norman’s case for activity-centred design
In a column written for Interactions Magazine, Donald Norman argues that human-centred designers should not just create clever taxonomies, but also task-onomies. “Many of the design tools used by the Human-Centered Design community lead to well-structured, carefully organized designs, often…
Misunderstood phones costs industry US$4.5 billion [Cellular News]
Human integration and the death of the device
Emotionally aware computer designed to read people’s minds [Business Week]
Measure user experience through engagement, not satisfaction
The future of human-computer interaction [ACM Queue]
Prof. John Canny of the University of California at Berkeley has published a thoughtful and in-depth article on the future of human-computer interaction in the July/August issue of ACM Queue, a publication of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), “the world’s…