The changing education experience (1)
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The Guardian published a supplement on the 'digital student' the other day. There is some general context and there is a range of short pieces on specific approaches or projects. This is all written for a general audience so there is no great detail and it is quite anecdotal. As context, there is an interview with David Melville chair of the Committee of Enquiry into the Changing Learning Experience ... But perhaps the largest surprise ...
Capturing the Gorilla: New Ways to Quantify the Value of Search (1)
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There is an ever-growing delta between the metrics that are commonly used to gauge search success and the true underlying value search delivers to marketers. There is a ton of ROI being left on the table – not because it isn’t being delivered but because it isn’t being measured and marketed to.There are a few metrics in particular that need to be quantified and understood. The value of the search impression The value of the ...
The many futures of our digital lives (1)
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We all live in a digital world, although it means different things to different people. In her inaugural public lecture as Adelaide’s Thinker in Residence, Intel’s Genevieve Bell will explore how digital technology is shaping our lives, our culture, and our future. Dr Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist and ethnographer with both an academic and industry background. Her research has provided considerable insight to the importance of culture in the adoption and adaptation of technology. ...
연세대학교 언론홍보영상학부 UX 특강 (1)
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연세대학교 언론홍보영상학부의 <사이버 커뮤니케이션> 과목에서 처음 만나는 UX 세상이라는 주제로 특강이 있었습니다. 그 동안 UX팩토리에서 다루었던 여러 사례들 중에서 학생들이 쉽게 이해할 만한 소재들로 구성한 발표자료랍니다. 기억에 남을 수 있는 이미지와 함께 배경이 될 수 있는 지식들을 여러 사례로 보여주고, UX에 대해 관심을 가지게 되어 세상을 UX 시각으로 바라볼 수 있었으면 하는 바램이 담겨 있어요. 각 슬라이드에 대한 설명은 함께 있는 UX팩토리 링크에서 보실 수 있어요. 학생들의 모습을 찍으려다, 카메라 배터리가 부족해 흔적만 남은 안타까운 ...
De envelop van je e-mailing (1)
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Het klinkt misschien een beetje gek. Maar net als de brieven per post, heeft digitale post een envelop. En net als bij direct mails, speelt de envelop van je e-mailing een doorslaggevende rol. Wordt jouw boodschap gelezen, of belandt hij ongeopend in de prullenmand? Tijd dus om die envelop eens onder de loep te nemen. Lees verder
Stop calling it usability testing (1)
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Now that I’ve got your attention, let me clarify what I mean. When we refer to this activity called “usability testing” there are often a lot of misunderstandings. It’s really not very applicable for the thing we should be doing. Here are some reasons why… It gets mistaken for UAT. It gets mistaken for technical testing. It makes it sound more ’scientific’ than it (usually) is. Usability testing is not UAT UAT, or User Acceptance ...
Book review: Born Digital (1)
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Some months ago I announced the publication of the book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. The book, which grew out of the digital natives project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center, investigates “what it means to grow up in a mediated culture and the ways in which technology inflects issues like privacy, safety, intellectual property, media creation, and learning,”. In a long review in the Washington ...
ux book club (1)
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i just came across the ux book club. a regular meeting focused on books related to user exerpience. steve baty nicely puts it: Such a meeting would provide experienced folks with a chance to revisit some classics in a critical light; as well as getting an incentive to read some more current materials. And for less experienced folks it would provide them with a forum to ask those ‘I don’t get it’ questions that they ...
“Patenting will be seen as a limitation of human rights” (2)
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“Patenting will be seen as a limitation of human rights.” “There are no cheaters ’cause in my system cheating is the most positive activity.” “Faulty residents are charged with negligence and sent to live in ‘financially active’ communities.” “[The will be] a never-ending variety of new richness values that makes the informal economy supremely superior to the current nonsensical cash culture.” These are some quotes of people completing the anonymous KashKlash questionnaire. You can see ...
Computers: Changing from power to experience (1)
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"(...) people are starting to make decisions based on other criteria than pure performance and that the overall user experience is becoming a bigger differentiator. - User experience is the primary battlefield and everything else is a distant second." (TG Daily) - courtesy of usabilitynews
Organizando informação no tempo e no espaço (1)
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O objetivo de uma interface é auxiliar o usuário a completar algum trabalho. Pra que o trabalho seja executado, a interface deve apresentar informação, normalmente na forma de dados, ferramentas e elementos de interação. Parte do trabalho do designer de interfaces é organizar a informação que será apresentada ao usuário. Informação pode ser posicionada no espaço ou colocada em fila no tempo. Organizando informação no tempo Nas telas de definição de preferências de aplicativos do ...
Organizando informação no tempo e no espaço (1)
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O objetivo de uma interface é auxiliar o usuário a completar algum trabalho. Pra que o trabalho seja executado, a interface deve apresentar informação, normalmente na forma de dados, ferramentas e elementos de interação. Parte do trabalho do designer de interfaces é organizar a informação que será apresentada ao usuário. Informação pode ser posicionada no espaço ou colocada em fila no tempo. Organizando informação no tempo Nas telas de definição de preferências de aplicativos do ...
Working Through Screens - 100 Ideas Worth Reading (3)
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There is an amazing downloadable book out by Flashbulb Interaction that comprehensively reviews 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge Work. It is probably one of the most exceptional publications I have read and re-read in a long while.The thorough approach, concepts and flow of information designed in this eBook is truly an amazing investment in creating real value in this information age, specifically for knowledge work. Jacob Burghardt writes ...
The unsubscribe roach motel: an email subscription anti-pattern (2)
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For those of you who don’t know the US cultural reference, the Roach Motel is a cockroach trap. Essentially just a small cardboard box with sticky paper inside, Roach Motels were made famous by Muhammad Ali, who at the tail end of his career was hired in as the product spokesman. Interesting choice. “Roaches check in, but they don’t check out”, as the saying goes. While this might be a passable way of getting rid ...
The rise of the sensor citizen (1)
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The current issue of Vodafone’s Receiver magazine — on space and location — is one of the best yet. Every week the editors invite another thoughtful thinker to contribute an essay on the topic, and this week the honour goes to Anne Galloway. Anne Galloway (blog) recently completed a PhD in sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, which involved conducting an ethnographic study of the design of mobile and pervasive technologies (download dissertation). ...
Give away stuff that makes your product easier (2)
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I bought a big jar of hand cream a while ago. I love it - it works great, it smells good, my hands always thank me. But it comes with a screw-on lid. Not a big deal, right? I thought so as well. But I noticed that the jar has lasted me a long, long, long time. Last week, I ordered more cream to put around the house. One of the options was to order ...
Give away stuff that makes your product easier (1)
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I bought a big jar of hand cream a while ago. I love it - it works great, it smells good, my hands always thank me. But it comes with a screw-on lid. Not a big deal, right? I thought so as well. But I noticed that the jar has lasted me a long, long, long time. Last week, I ordered more cream to put around the house. One of the options was to order ...
Microsoft Claims Web Causes Cyberchondria (1)
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Are you always preoccupied with having a serious illness? Do you automatically attribute your headache to having a brain tumor, a skin rash to skin cancer, or fatigue to impending death?! If so, I am sorry to say you are probably a hypochondriac. And, according to Microsoft Research, the Web and search engines are probably making it worse and making us all ‘cyberchondriacs’ - which they refer to as the unfounded escalation of concerns about ...
Microsoft Claims Web Causes Cyberchondria (1)
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Are you always preoccupied with having a serious illness? Do you automatically attribute your headache to having a brain tumor, a skin rash to skin cancer, or fatigue to impending death?! If so, I am sorry to say you are probably a hypochondriac. And, according to Microsoft Research, the Web and search engines are probably making it worse and making us all ‘cyberchondriacs’ - which they refer to as the unfounded escalation of concerns about ...
Google Maps Interface Revamped for Street View : Local Search Optimization (5)
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The Google Maps interface was revamped, again, to get a better user experience, especially by putting more attention to Google Street View and to increase maps usage in general. This was just announced on the Google LatLong blog When you drag the pegman (the little yellow mascotte) from the zoom bar to the map you will see thumbnails of Street View appearing on the area you drag it to. You can see directly which areas ...
