Presenting Data
Saturday, January 5th, 2008Sometimes the data are so interesting, that even a mediocre chart works (via Think or Thwim):
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Bloat and Cars
Friday, October 19th, 2007Coding Horror complains about the terrors of bloat.
I think that there is a parallel here with cars (albeit in the ultrafast timescales of IT). Cars keep getting bigger and bigger: I think know the current VW Polo is larger than the 1st generation Golf we used to own. So with software: if the free app […]
Gorilla Usability
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007For those who want to get things done fast, or just want to study some of the principles, Smashing Magazine has published 30 Usability Issues to be Aware Of. It is a mix of rules, principles and phenomena related to usability. For serious studying, I suggest to delve into the depths of Interaction-Design.org. Also, for the attendants […]
Usability and politics
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007It 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 […]
Don’t Fax and Drive
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007After the debate of how dangerous talking on the mobile phone while driving is, US legislators are talking about new laws against faxing and playing video games while driving (via techdirt). While this is a no-brainer from an ergonomics point of view, it’s an interesting view into the US legal system. What’s next, they’ll ban […]
Participatory ERP
Friday, June 29th, 2007While searching the net for some info on failed ERP implementations, I stumbled upon an excellent (sic) post in the EvolvingExcellence blog. It really points out the problems that any small organization inevitably faces during a large vendor ERP implementation. As an alternative is proposes a “primitive” participatory design method:
First get some people […]
Moore’s law of email storage…
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007Yahoo! Mail announced it will offer unlimited capacity in May. I still remember friends with a 1MB Hotmail account and how our online life has changed. On the other hand, our basic productivity environment (Office) has not changed significantly since Windows 95, and online offerings (e.g. GoogleDocs) -besides offering the always on advantages- are actually […]
Pastiche Scenarios
Monday, April 9th, 2007Pastiche Scenarios borrow characters from works of fiction (novels, TV shows etc.). The use of such characters in scenarios allows the users to uncover facts that would otherwise be hidden. It is a way to overcome the writers block encountered when trying to envision personas, which leads to making them generic and undistinguished (thus creating […]
Surreal Intersection…
Friday, March 30th, 2007Via Spinuzzi’s blog (Old media helps out new media):
How much more surreal could our lives become? Who needs friends when he’s got friendsters?technorati tags:web2.0, social, surrealism
Learning from failure (Gaw, S. & Kaye, J.)
Thursday, February 15th, 2007Paper reviewed for the alt.chi 2007 conference An introspective HCI paper dealing with the notion of “failed” research. Successes are reported, failures swept under the rug. The paper discusses the limitations of quantitive approaches, especially in providing novel explanations, because of their strict structuring. Qualitive approaches are by definition more open-ended, but the initial expectations can […]
