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 […]
Continue Reading →Agenda, 7th May
So far, the agenda is: Next meeting venue – Leeds? Progress of the new blog and mailing list, end-of-life for the yahoo group. Future presentations. The main feature – Chris Collingridge on Usability in an Agile Development Environment. AOB. Pub. 6.30 start.
Continue Reading →Directions to Laterooms
The address is: Unit 1, Brewery Yard Deva Centre Trinity Way M3 7BB Video directions: Walking Driving It’s not the easiest place to find – but if you can get to the Lowry hotel you’re pretty much there. I will be going on foot from the city centre so can loiter in a convenient spot […]
Continue Reading →Eye Tracking – Is it of Real Use?
Andre Charland over at IXDA posted an article (Is Eye Tracking Out of Reach?) on O’Reilly’s Inside RIA site. It seems to have sparked quite a discussion. Go check it out. Hat tip: Thanks to Lucy Buykx for the tip.
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