Last year I had the opportunity to study a post-grad subject called Interaction Design at UTS with Dr. Toni Robertson. The subject taught us about usability, HCI, heuristics and touched …
Creating better 404 error pages
AlistApart have published a great article on creating better 404 error pages. A server 404 error page or message occurs when a website page is missing or cannot be found. …
3G User Interface articles
The 3GPortal have a collection of interesting articles which discuss interface design issues in mobile and portable computing. The website has some interesting links to articles on Design, Future developments, …
Carl Franklin comments on User Interface Layers
Carl Franklin comments on using user interface layers. The post contains some great comments on the use of layers in interface design and interesting discussion on alternative and possible uses.
The Nokia Research Library
The Nokia Research Library contains some interesting journal and conference papers on Audio and Visual Communication Systems, Electronics, Mobile Networks, User Interfaces (Speech, Visual), Security and Usability and Ergonomics.
CHI-Place is relaunched
CHI-Place an online community forum site on Human-Computer Interaction has been relaunched. The website, continues to be a resource for information on related topics, interviews, extra reading, external resources and …
INFront profiles the SBS creative team
Australian INFront have profiled 5 designers from multicultural and multilingual broadcaster, SBS (Special Broadcasting Service). Their creative and profiled work is really amazing and worthwhile checking out. The profiled designers …
The application of semiotics to Icons
Barr, P., et al. published/presented a great paper at the Fourth Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2003) in Adelaide earlier this year, titled Icons R Icons. The paper looks at the …
Think Secret on the upcoming OSX 10.3 Finder
Think Secret have uploaded a 5 part series document commenting on various changes including images on the upcoming Apple OS X 10.3 (Panther) Finder.
Maya’s Methods when evaluating Interfaces
Whilst reading this blog post by Peter Merholz, which commented on the ACM Interactions article by Microsoft’s Dennis Wixon, Evaluating usability methods: Why the current literature fails the practitioner (which …
Unix plugin which suggests from what you’re currently reading or writing
Remem (The Remembrance Agent) is a plug-in developed and maintained by Bradley Rhodes, for Emacs (a Unix-based text editor), which suggests information relevant to what you’re currently reading or writing. …
User Interface templates by Gabe Zentall
Gabe Zentall, a San Francisco-based user experience consultant has uploaded a library of User Interfaces in Adobe Illustrator format to be used when creating prototypes, user interface mockups and models …
Column Two – a useful weblog on KM and CM
Column Two is an Australian weblog by James Robertson, Managing Director of Step Two Designs, a consultancy based in Sydney on Content Management (CM) and Knowledge Management (KM). The blog …
What is Fitts law? and its relation to HCI
Here is a PDF document based on the research by Shumin Zhai, an IBM Research Staff Member, which extends the law developed by Fitts in 1954. Fitts Law is a …
The theory behind User Interface Design
Here are two interesting articles by Mauro Marinilli on User Interface Design commenting on Usability Heuristics such as, knowing your user, minimising load, maintaining consistency following standards and displaying system …