Diana Wynne, blogger extraordinaire and a design manager at an unnamed company in San Francisco, opines about the sorry state of ergonomics in your child’s cafeteria. At Microsoft, we have a vaguely similar setup, except that our receptacles are ...
Microsoft just released Beta 1 of their new, designer-oriented web development product, Expression Web. Expression Web, which requires v2.0 of the .NET Framework, can be downloaded for free from Microsoft (requires free registration and a Windows ...
Lili Cheng, the Director of Windows Ux (usability, design, etc), is interviewed in a podcast on PodTech.net (god, I hate that name). Kudos to Scoble for the link. What happens when all of our operating systems come together — our phones, our ente...
Have you ever spent time browsing Edward Tufte’s website? You really should. I haven’t in quite a while, and I was surprised by how much I had missed previously. The man is absolutely spectacular at the art of presenting information usefully, and ...
The single most beautiful thing I have ever borne witness to was a Sigur Ros concert in Seattle back in May 2006. There’s a point in one of their songs, entitled viðrar vel til loftárása, where the lead singer, Jónsi, pauses mid-lyric, holding his...
This month in ACM Queue, John Canny, a distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley, poses the question “Is an HCI revolution just around the corner?” Although I generally find breathless prognostications of amazing possibilities Right Ar...
I’m off to not-so-warm-and-sunny San Francisco until Tuesday night. I may have time and opportunity to post, but I’m not counting on it. See y’all Wednesday at the latest! In the mean time, go take a look at the following blogs I read on a regula...
A fantastic blog entry on 37Signals’ Signal vs. Noise explores the complexity of creating effective, simple user experiences: Sometimes there’s a lot more to simple than meets the eye. To the customer, this is just a few obvious words in a small b...
I found a video of the new start menu for KDE on the Web the other day. It’s actually pretty cool; it looks far more polished than previous versions I’ve seen, it’s resizable, and includes some nice integrated search functionality. One complaint ...
I just found a bolus of information on a concept phone produced by Synaptics, makers of touchpads everywhere and Pilotfish, a German/Taiwanese design firm. The concept incorporates some unique elements to enhance usability, such as automatically a...