by Theo Mandel | Mar 7, 2007 | Technology, User Centered Design (UCD)
Las Vegas — Developers for the consumer market should worry less about wowing users with gizmos and features, and more about how consumers actually use the devices, speakers and papers concluded at the International Conference of Consumer Electronics (ICCE)....
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 1, 2007 | Technology
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...
