Computer Tech Support Parody: “Introducing the book”
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 understandable to them -...
Look Ma, No Buttons: Futuristic touch-screen technology is quickly becoming a present-day reality on many consumer electronic gadgets
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 of...
The human factor in gadget, Web design (CNN News)
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 machines...
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
So You Want to Be a Rock Star (Usability Consultant) – UPA 2007 Panel
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...
Articles/Videos: Steve Krug (Web Usability) and Jakob Nielsen (Application Usability)
Read and view interviews with two colleagues and well-known UI authors and gurus, Jakob Nielsen and Steve Krug. Great Minds in Development: Steve Krug talks about Web usability Article Video Great Minds in Development: Jakob Nielsen - Designing Your Applications for...
Web Search Design: Interview with Larry Cornett, Yahoo Director of User Experience Design
Larry Cornett, the relatively new Director of User Experience Design at Yahoo and Kathryn Kelly, Director of PR for Yahoo! Search, speak with Gord Hotchkiss of Search Engine Land. Read the interview here. Gord asked Larry and Catherine about the Yahoo search...
How the Web is helping TV!
You would think that with the intense use of the Internet today, "googling" our brains out, watching idiotic video clips on YouTube, and our preoccupation with music and MP3 players, we would spend less time sitting down and watching television. Well, it turns out,...
Bad Usability Calendar – 2007
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Why the Geek Squad has become a Technological Necessity
Get Me The Geeks! How Tricky Technology Is Giving Rise To The Geeks CBS News - 60 Minutes January 28, 2007 Ever seen those funky-looking VW bugs driving around town? Have you felt the need to pick up the phone and call the Geek Squad? Well, you are not alone. 60...