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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 […]

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 […]

For my blogging: looking for the formal name of the “ugly alternative” P.E.T.-design principle in the @kas #HFI webcast http://bit.ly/6cDt1 #
“An epidemic of overloaded text slides” in #ppt, says Dave Paradi in a podcast (http://bit.ly/jnczw) with sad & amusing examples. @wvmikep #
Semantic Web is slowly coming into focus for the wider world. Download the […]

Looking at Androida Free WordPress business theme. Cool. http://bit.ly/11hnt9 Do I have the courage to switch themes on FiveSketches.com…? #
Usability of swine-flu news: Fail, because current stats are within the norm. “In Canada, 4000 die each year from flu.” http://bit.ly/Uqdcz #
Usability as political philosophy. Imagine policies and laws that take common human responses/behaviours into account. […]

The location of USB jacks affect my usability rating of a laptop computer. Must I rotate/flip it over each time, or can I truly plug & play? #
Spam is so crafty! I have “Nadine” commenting on my blog (http://FiveSketches.com) using a north-American idiom, but her domain’s in Russia. #
Someone recommended the PublicSpeaker site & podcasts […]