National Federation of the Blind and American Council of the Blind File Discrimination Suit Against Arizona State University
It was bound to happen soon...Companies and universities implementing new technology that should enable all users to use the technology, yet has not fully addressed accessibility issues...and they are now caught in the act and are rightfully getting sued. In a new...
Designers Who Wireframe: Pros and Cons
Most UI/usability/information designers/architects create various types of wireframes when we design. This article discusses the different types of wireframes and their pros and cons. The article also shows good examples of diffferent types of wireframes and the final...
Healthcare IT: Vested Interest in Inefficiency?
A Pound of Cure: The federal government is about to spend big on healthcare IT. Too bad the medical industry has a vested interest in inefficiency. Provocative article about the inability of the healthcare industry to move forward with critical software and technology...
Continued Usability Problems in Patient-Doctor Communication
Yet another stumbling block in the ongoing struggle to build Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the effort to improve patient-doctor communication - people don't know their own anatomy!! A study of patients and members of the...
Tufts Summer Institute on Web Strategies for Health Communication
An interesting course on healthcare web strategies and usability. For more information, contact: Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D. Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine Blog on health: http://lisaneal.wordpress.com/ Editor-in-Chief, eLearn Magazine,...
Research Paper – Real or Imaginary: The effectiveness of using personas in product design
Good academic article on using personas in product design View Article
The Future of Doctor-Patient Interaction in Healthcare
Interesting video on YouTube of Microsoft Surface and the healthcare application Amalga. "Captured at HIMSS09, one of the core developers for Microsoft Amalga walks through the application. The health care industry has a complete aspect of new technologies and...
National Healthcare Initiative and Usability
Big Challenges Await Health Records Transition David Blumenthal (the new National Coordinator for Health IT) and Mark Leavitt (the chair of their certification commission) are suggesting in the Wall Street Journal (4/22/2009) that user experience be included in the...
What makes a “User Experience expert”?
Good summary of what is a "User Experience" expert. Read the follow-up comments and posts your own comments. http://www.insideria.com/2008/12/what-makes-a-user-experience-e.html
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