Fitt’s law and the new Office 2007 interface

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I came across a really interesting blog post by Jensen Harris, on Fitt’s law and new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” user interface. Fitts’ law is a model of human movement, predicting …

MapCruncher: Interactive Web Maps Come to Life

In Archive by Fredy Ore

MapCruncher – a prototype technology from Microsoft Research that makes it easy for users to create their own, personalized mash-ups – may revolutionize the way people use online maps. An …

Typography Outline and Shape affects word recognition

In Archive by Fredy Ore

This Microsoft paper within their Typography and Cleartype section titled, The science of word recognition, comments on evidence within cognitive psychology that indicates we use the letters within words to …

An intro review of Windows Media Centre Edition

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Anandtech have posted a really interesting and thorough introduction to the new set-top Personal Video Recorders (PVR). In particular the review, looks at Microsoft’s XP Media Center Edition (MCE), hardware …

Maya’s Methods when evaluating Interfaces

In Archive by Fredy Ore

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 …

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Microsoft recently released the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit which includes some useful tools, book, samples and utilities. The resource kit is available separately, but so far isn’t included …

Microsoft Smart Tags

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Microsoft’s plans to include Smart Tags in official releases of XP and IE6, have been stalled. Smart tags are a way to recognizes certain words or types of data and …

America Online and Microsoft Discussions

In Archive by Fredy Ore

America Online and Microsoft are in preliminary discussions to revise their long-standing partnership agreement, a move that could see renewed cooperation between the technology giants after a period of apparent …

Properties of IE5.5 and IE6.0 Beta

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Some samples of effects used in properties of IE5.5 and IE6.0 Beta msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/c-frame.htm?/downloads/samples/internet/default.asp