Category Archives: Usability
Philips Hue
Something that makes me proud -once again- to be Dutch. Philips have release a new wonderful product that is on my “wanttohaveitsobad” list directly! “A bright idea from Philips: the electronics giant has released the Hue system; a set of … Continue reading
Six Steps to Persuasive Design with Dr. Eric Schaffer
Dr. Eric Schaffer takes us through six steps of the process of creating a persuasive design. Download a poster of this animation and a free white paper on PET research athttp://www.humanfactors.com/persuasion.asp See this and many more shorts … Continue reading
RG | DropMark Usability Video Channel
I got my DropMark Beta invitation today! Wow what a great tool this is. DropMark is a simple way to organize and collaborate in the cloud. It allows you to make collections of pictures or movies (upload or link … Continue reading
Secude to Reduce
Very interesting experiments from Hivos how simple changes can get people to change their behavior. In this example they test if it’s possible to get people to take the stairs instead of the elevator.. and therefor save energy! More info: … Continue reading
5 UX meltdowns and how to avoid them
Dr. Eric Schaffer talks about 5 UX meltdowns and how they can be avoided. You can download a poster of the animation athttp://www.humanfactors.com/meltdown.asp
Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)
The concept of object oriented CSS and how it can help improve both the performance and maintainability of your Web pages. As with any object-based coding method, the purpose of OOCSS is to encourage code reuse and, ultimately, faster and more efficient … Continue reading
TEDx Hogeschool Utrecht Moral Persuasion
This was the opening video for the TEDx Hogeschool Utrecht event curated by Mischa Coster. Persuasion is used every day to get people to act in certain ways towards other people, towards causes, but mostly towards products and brands. … Continue reading
Sebastian Deterding – Rethinking the Ethics of Design
Sebastian Deterding TEDx talk “Rethinking the Ethics of Design” @ TEDx Hoge School Utrecht on the 8th of November 2011. Sebastian Deterding is a designer and researcher working on user experience, video games, persuasive technology and gameful design. He … Continue reading
Don Norman – The Impact of Persuasion
Don Norman’s talk on Tedx at the Hoge School Utrecht on the 8th of November 2011 about the impact of Persuasion. Don Norman was recently named by Business Week as “one of the world’s most influential designers.” His … Continue reading
Story Mapping
After listening to an Blogpost @UIE with Jeff Patton about Story Mapping for UX Practitoners: Tying Agile and UX Together I’ve been looking for more information about this interesting approach. So what is Story Mapping? Story Mapping … Continue reading
The Nest
Nest is the first thermostat that learns from you. Stay comfortable when you’re home, save energy when you’re away. Biggest question is.. will it come to Europe in the near future aswel ? I would order More … Continue reading
InvisionApp
Just came across InvisionApp while browsing UxMovement.com. This tool really looks promising and it can indeed speed up the proces design-wise but also to get feedback from clients! More info @ http://www.invisionapp.com/
Steve Jobs on Creativity
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they … Continue reading
Chasing Dollars instead of Passion
Many people have the skills to make dollars but their decision making skills, especially which niches or business they need to go into have to come from 1 place…..Gary Vaynerchuk does a great job articulating this in this short … Continue reading
Jeff Bezos. Obsess about customers!
Very inspiring movie from Jeff Bezos about founding Amazon and his shortlist to actually make it as far as he came. “It’s always day 1“ Also he addresses Zappos and their customer obsessed focus! More from Jeff Bezos Zappos … Continue reading
Wacom Inkling
I just came across my next *wanna and gonna have* from the interwebs .. the Wacom Inkling. I just saw someone working with a Livescribe and that looked neat but the Inkling goes even further. The Inkling is a neat device … Continue reading
Lytro: Camera Start-Up Offers a Whole New Perspective
This is real incredible innovation – a camera sensor that enables you to change the focus AFTER the pictures are taken. Very nice and the camera’s will be available later this year (2011)..!! More info @ allthingsd.com also … Continue reading
UX Enterprise: The Relational Database of UX Objects
Based on 30 years of experience in User Experience (UX) design, and 18 person-years of development effort, HFI introduces UX Enterprise™ (UXE), the world’s most powerful UX asset management and design system. UX Enterprise is a software product … Continue reading
A next-generation digital book
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient … Continue reading
Tribute to UX Design part II
Who doesn’t love a good UX design, and who doesn’t get totally frustrated with bad experience design. This is a Follow up on the first tribute .. Hail to all the great UX designers of the world. Spread the love … Continue reading
What Makes a Good UX Designer?
What makes a good UX designer? It’s an important question, not just for current and aspiring UX designers, but also for those looking to hire a UX designer and for those working with UX designers. In this article I outline … Continue reading
MWC 2011 – Gesture Control for Mobile Devices – Extreme Reality
XTR3D offering Gesture Control Software Interface using front facing camera. Users can control their device and play games from 15cm up to 5m away!. XTR3D interface is robust in “noisy environments” of ‘hand held devices, offering low level optimized solution … Continue reading
Google +1
Google’s answer to the Facebook “Like Button” is here. The +1 button is shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.” Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1′s can help friends, … Continue reading
Sifteo
In Feb 2009 there was an amazing video on TED where David Merrill demos Siftables. The movie was really incredible but at that moment it was still something for the future. Now SIFTEO is a fact and soon you can … Continue reading
The ROI of User Experience
A nice animated video where Dr. Susan Weinschenk (HFI) demonstrates how user centered design results in significant return on investment (ROI). More info@ http://www.humanfactors.com/ROIposter.asp – Download a PDF poster of the ROI of User Experience animation featured in this video.
Interaction Design
[youtube C3rxCLhzmXY] Bill Verplank is interviewed. His illustrated descriptions clarify the pioneering interaction design work of Bill Atkinson and Larry Tesler. Combine these interviews with the ideas of David Liddle, Terry Winograd and Gillian Crampton Smith for an overview of … Continue reading
Wrong / Right
Gloves by Donna Wilson make sure you get them on right on those sleepy mornings. More info @Donna Wilson
Media Surfaces: “Incidental Media”
Interesting bit about what happens when you combine traditional media with messages from friends and social services, like Foursquare or Twitter, and also more functional messages from companies or services like banks or airlines alongside large traditional big ‘M’ Media … Continue reading
iPad Uzu
Very impressive movie about the iPad app Uzu. I know what my next purchuse at the iTunes store will be [youtube sbVU7zq4Ox0]
Testing accordion forms
Very interesting article by Luke Wroblewski on A List Apart about using accordions for forms. Our quick test seems to indicate that accordion forms may have an interesting future online. They can bring multiple page forms together into a single … Continue reading
iPad iMockups
Very nice! Going to buy this ASAP ! [youtube LOyIVqJcGfc]
Prototype an iPad App using Keynote
User experience consultant, Amir Khella details how to prototype an iPad application in Keynote in 30 minutes. [youtube DOiCdZYVpqM]
Dieter Rams video interview
The legendary Braun designer talks about his craft. [youtube A6-wA-7QIeE] “A design should not dominate people.”
jQuery slide to unlock
Very nice approach to get visitors to prove that they are actual humans and not (spam)robots. A jQuery captcha approach that asks the visitor to slide/unlock an element like on the iPhone. Much better that the normal captcha methods where … Continue reading