by Theo Mandel | Oct 22, 2007 | Application Usability, Technology, Usability Humor
Police excuse angry computer user for outburst Reuters, Tuesday July 17, 2007 2:35pm EDT (View article) BERLIN (Reuters) – A German man who startled his neighbors when he hurled his computer out of the window in the middle of the night, was let off for...
by Theo Mandel | Jul 21, 2007 | Application Usability, Technology, User Centered Design (UCD)
Good interview with Larry Tesler, one of the innovators from Xerox PARC who created the early GUIs with icons and folders on the desktop. After the Xerox PARC years, he worked at Apple on the early GUI products, the Apple Lisa and the Macintosh. This was an exciting...
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...
by Theo Mandel | Feb 5, 2007 | Application Usability, Web 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...
by Theo Mandel | Jan 29, 2007 | Application Usability, Usability Testing, Web Usability
Forrester Research has just published two studies on usability testing in their new series, “Usability Testing for Managers.” I participated as one of the experts in the field Forrester surveyed for the studies. These studies are usually not publicly...
by Theo Mandel | Jan 24, 2007 | Application Usability, Prototyping, Web Usability
A major aspect in user interface and interaction design is prototyping. Typically, prototypes are either low-fidelity prototypes (flip-charts, drawings, PowerPoint, etc.) to evaluate conceptual designs or high-fidelity prototypes (HTML/JavaScript, Flash, application...
