by Theo Mandel | Feb 15, 2007 | Technology, Usability Bloopers
Great video highlighting the usability of “new” technology and tech support. Imagine the usability problems that surfaced when books were first created! “This video makes fun of moderns newbie computer users by illustrating – in a way fully...
by Theo Mandel | Feb 14, 2007 | Technology
The high-tech computer touchscreens you see in the movies are not as futuristic as you think! “In the 2002 thriller Minority Report, detective John Anderton, (played by Tom Cruise) uses gloved hands to manipulate images on three-dimensional charts. The depiction...
by Theo Mandel | Feb 14, 2007 | Technology, User Centered Design (UCD), Users, Web Usability
More good press for my field of usability and web design: “Experts in the field of so-called human-computer interaction, however, say good design like the YouTube interface is the exception, not the rule. For every slick Apple iPod, there are a dozen washing...
by Theo Mandel | Feb 8, 2007 | Technology
Google intends to scan every book ever published, and to make the full texts searchable, in the same way that Web sites can be searched on the company
by Theo Mandel | Feb 6, 2007 | Application Usability, Usability Consulting, Usability Testing, Web Usability
Usability Professionals’ Association 2007 Conference: Patterns: Blueprints for Usability, June 11-15, Austin, Texas I am participating on an exciting panel of expert consultants at the 2007 UPA conference. It should be a great time. Please check out the Advance...
