Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Usability
UTUM: building the best smartphone experience [SymbianOne]
Picking the brains of the Institute of Design [Usability News]
IDEA 2006 conference on designing complex information spaces
UPA usability journal focuses on international, cross-cultural aspects
Most of the articles in the fourth issue of the Journal of Usability Studies (a publication of the Usability Professionals’ Associaton) have a global flavor addressing issues of international, cross-cultural aspects of usability. The Journal of Usability Studies, published by…
Ars Electronica on simplicity
Mobile internet is still a turn-off [The Register]
Searching for a mobile interface [BBC]
Putting People First official blogger of the European Market Research Event 2006
The friendly face of business software [Business Week]
The new simplicity at Philips [Business Week]
Washers and dryers air messages to PCs, TVs, phones [Associated Press]
Misunderstood phones costs industry US$4.5 billion [Cellular News]
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…
Negative user experience of World Cup on mobile phones [MEX]
Emphasis on user needs is key in European innovation strategy
Mature users seek uncluttered mobiles, claims research
Rachel Jones, founder of the UK user-centred design company Instrata, writes in Usability News about new research by her company which “set out to discover what consumers in the UK and other European countries aged 30 and upwards really want”…
The science and art of user experience at Google
On Google Video you can find a recent 30 minute Google Tech Talk presentation by Jen Fitzpatrick, engineering director at Google and in charge of Google’s user experience team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis…
Lenovo’s search for the soul of the Chinese customer
Introducing the winners of the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs), Bruce Nussbaum writes in Business Week: “Managers everywhere are turning to rapid ethnography, usability, special materials, and aesthetics—the tools of design—to innovate.” He then goes on to discuss the…