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Dear Videogame Makers:
You do not need to present a dialog informing me that my saved game has loaded successfully. I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to tell when my game has loaded without having to click through yet another dialog.
I’m looking at you, Ubisoft.
That is all.
I am not a graphic artist; I don’t draw icons. To understand what I do, one of my favorite breakdowns of usable software design is Jesse James Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience (view the original diagram). I have taken his diagram and placed next to it a small selection of some of the methodologies […]
I regularly receive quite a few links via instant message in any given day. I like this, as it’s a part of the social and connectionist processes which make the Internet function, and it’s part of how things can progress in “Internet time”.
Unfortunately sometimes I’m in a state of busyness in which I’m free to […]
CHI2006, the conference on human factors in computing systems, has released a final schedule [pdf]. I will be attending the event and I wanted to give you, my loyal (and not so loyal) readers, a chance to let me know if there’s anything at the conference you think I should attend.
The schedule link is a […]
Metroid Prime Hunters (the new first-person shooter for the Nintendo DS based on the Metroid series) features 90 degrees of a pie menu!
Players can select between the primary weapon, a missile launcher, and an alternate weapon. The alternate weapons are acquired from the various other hunters players battle throughout the game. To select among the […]
Is it just me, or does Microsoft always proclaim near the end of a product’s development “This isn’t the final theme!”? You’d think people beta testing the software would get it by now. (Of course, sometimes Microsoft ships a theme which is only a slight variant of the current one, though I doubt that will […]
I’m curious: Does anyone out there actually use tag clouds to navigate around web sites? Do you actually do anything more than “Oh, it looks like they’ve posted a lot about HTML, let me see more about that.”? How is that different from reading a post about HTML and clicking the tag there?
Don’t get me […]