Lucy Sushman, who received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science last year, is doing a talk in Sydney titled ‘Embodied Agencies at the Interface’. The talk will …
The end of Click Here
Dave Phillips from Cafedave.net has posted a great link to an article which comments on the end of the “click here” hyperlink. The article makes reference to Donald Norman and …
Nielsen says simplicity rules the Web
Jakob Nielsen in this week’s Alertbox comments on why simplicity rules the World Wide Web. Low end media (text & graphics) can have superior benefits at times over rich-media. Simplicity …
Usability research papers in New Architect Mag
There are some excellent and useful Usability Research papers in the New Architect Archive. You will need to subscribe to read.
Peter Merholz comments on Finding the Right Users during research
Peter Merholz has written an interesting summary in the Adaptive Path Essays section which comments on better ways of finding users for research. He looks at a more scientific approach, …
Do usability myths need a reality check?
Signal vs Noise post an interesting comment on Usability Myths. The post comments on a recent article by Will Schroeder from User Interface Engineering (UIE), who has written a feature …
First rule of usability – Don’t listen to users.
Macromedia have released their 3rd public Beta version of their new Macromedia site based on User feedback. It is interesting to read the documentation they have gathered on the statistics …
The HCI Bibliography project resource website
The HCI Bibliography project is a reference library website on Human Computer Interaction and User Interface Usability. I came across the website while reading the foreward by Gary Perlman from …
Peterme.com is back online
Peter Merholz’s blog site, PeterMe is back online with a first post today. Peter has written extensively on Information architecture and Interaction design and his site contains a wealth of …
Stop Design comments on public design advantages
Douglas Bowman from Stop Design comments on “Public Design” and the interesting ways in which public comments during development is helping commercial and non-commercial websites better develop, consider and design …
An early Internet page by Tim Berners Lee on Usability, Standards and Readability
While visiting the W3C to validate a page I came across an old Style Guide mini site by Tim Berners-Lee from 1995 titled, Style Guide for online hypertext. The document …
Macromedia.com gets redesigned as a Rich Internet App
The macromedia.com website gets redesigned with a new facelift and rich internet application. www.macromedia.com The new website prompts new questions once again about macromedia’s compliance with accessible devices. Here is …
Book interface to help video
Technology Review comments on new ways in which researchers are using the book to better help the development of interface of video. Using book developed activites such as skimming, bookmarking, …
HCI subject at UTS with Dr. Toni Robertson
I started my HCI postgraduate subject at UTS last night with Dr. Toni Robertson. Here is the list of recommended readings/books: 1. Preece, Jenny, Yvonne Rogers, Hellen Sharp (2001), Interaction …
Selling Information Architecture
A really useful and interesting article in Digital Web Magazine which comments on the task of selling user-centred IA. The problem with ?selling information architecture? is that too often it …