Notes on papers, books and blogs about Cognitive Ergonomics, HCI, philosophy of design and everything interesting
The NSF Science & Engineering Visualization winners (via Data Mining) are inspiring pieces of work. The real challenge is to find ways to exploit the work put into visualizations like the modelling of the flight of a bat.
Tags: visualization, design
I will be presenting in the coming Opencoffee IV in Athens, a talk titled “Usability: Guerilla, Gorilla and beyond”, about integrating user-centred design and usability principles in the design of new web2.0 sites. Tags: usability, user-centred, opencoffee
Bruce Nussbaum writes about the apparent failure of the One Laptop per Child project. I think that the problem is not in the failure of the project per se, but the fact that so many people were blind to its inherent limitations.
The fact that the project was designed top-down without significant research into the usage […]
It may not be the new Florida ballot, but it certainly is funny. Another lesson learned: always use colour for redundancy and not as a means to deliver your primary message!
In this poster the intended message is the “worse is coming”. “Worse” has a green background to signify the socialist party (PASOK) and “coming” has […]
Smashing magazine has a list of methods that a designer can use in order to focus on users. There is a fairly wide array of methods most of which can be used by someone inexperienced in ergonomics. One most note though that methods like cognitive task analysis or activity analysis cannot be used without extensive […]
Viruses are not always digital. AlwaysBeta (via 43 Folders) presents the case of a broken adapter that breaks any connector that is connected to it. An intereseting piece of adaptation in the most static of all worlds: the material.
What I had discovered, in essence, was a mechanical virus. It infects Mac laptops and speads via […]
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