Five Sketches™

The results again show: good designers & content creators use #usability testing to get an even better user experience. #UX #

Computer injury up 700%. How? Seniors, kids TRIP on wires, hardware. Frustrated users HIT & KICK hardware. #ux #design issues! #
A view of a real or fake plants incr workplace productivity, and patients go home 1 day sooner. #UX design: plants in your product’s GUI? #
A request in someone’s right ear has more success, so […]

Not only gestalt principles, also 2D design principles apply to UI design. User’s brain vs your UI design: http://tr.im/uFoP #

The cynical information architect’s view of online newspapers: http://htxt.it/0oi6 #
No wireless access today, during the @JMSpool UIE Road Show 2009, which means no Twittering! #
During today’s UIE Road Show, @jmsppol said that great experience design is not open to introspection. It must be apprenticed. #
Online videos average 3.5 min. In total, US internet users watch […]

If you missed the UPA 2009 conference, here’s a compilation of my micro-blogging: http://bit.ly/15muMY #
When it comes to sharing my PC desktop, I’m liking free #Mikogo for its features. Macworld UK likes the Mac version: http://bit.ly/LePdS #
Attempting to model the transitions in a wireframe by using Axure’s dynamic-panels feature. #

This week, my tweets will focus on the UPA conference, and my research into usability research. After that, normal broadcasting resumes. #
Made it to Portland for #upa2009. Had a nice dinner with a school friend from years ago. #
Users wiling to struggle with an unusable intranet if the info is useful. Kath Straub at #upa2009 […]

There are things I just cannot do on my blog without Camtasia: narration + music bed, and zooming and panning across the image. #
Mass #media adds #usability to government: interactive European Parliament elections map http://bit.ly/eJSVl #fb (Thx @demsoc) #
UPA provides mini-certification for its conference attendees (“Passport To Success”). Details in this pdf: http://bit.ly/WyymG #
In contrast, […]

“A real human interface” shows a cognitive model of how a computer functions, using an actor: http://ping.fm/qNqPN #
Keith Raboid says eBay lost market share because social apps are more fun. A lesson for interaction designers? #UX #UE http://bit.ly/eZcyw #
Any publ’d usability-test results of the voice-search feature on Yahoo, Blackberry, Nokia, Win Mobile handsets? http://ping.fm/bxEt9 #
Mobile-phone […]

Code of Conduct for companies who (want to) use Twitter: balance your crediblility and need for confidentiality. http://bit.ly/yJCt3 #
$15 airport fee? OK. In return I’d like: airport access by rail, a smile at security, free wireless, free bag carts, no-gouge food pricing. #
Good advice can be simple: IBM tells its blogging employees: “Stay away […]

Cookie usability. Cookies have affordance: the edge fits in toddler’s mouth for biting. The flat side only affords licking. #
Canadian airports with free wireless: Vancouver, Fredericton, Edmonton. Yay! Any others? #
You’re a usability nerd if your answer to “Why is cutlery always in the top drawer?” includes the words “taxonomy” and “statistically”. #
“We should not […]