I’m currently studying an OU course in UI Design and Evaluation. Over on the course message board we’ve been having an interesting discussion about the terminology / jargon that the course materials use – in particular the concepts of task scenario, concrete use case, use scenario and essential use case: a task scenario is related […]
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We talked a little in Wednesday’s (July 2nd) meeting about the lack of recognised qualifications to audit or certify a web site as “accessible”. I recalled a customer of my company had asked about the use of a “trusted friend”. Alas, my recollection was faulty and the phrase they had used was “critical friend”. It […]
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Continue Reading →Is Usability Relevant?
I saw this on Boxes and Arrows “- Journey to the Center of Design – Jared Spool There’s a growing sentiment that spending limited resources on user research takes away from essential design activities. Is it time for user- centered design to evolve into something else? Or is there something else happening in our world […]
Continue Reading →The future of interfaces
As some of you already know, I’m a big fan of the idea of minority report style interfaces, and the Nintendo Wii. This guy has done some work with wiimotes to create cheap interfaces such as this Desktop VR display. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw I’d like to start a thread on here about how we could approach the […]
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