Good Design is an incredibly delicate balance. While I’m often busy fighting to get people to do usability evaluation at all, there are places where Human-Centered Design has become the one true philosophy. Don Norman reminds us that users don’t know everything:
One basic philosophy of HCD is to listen to users, to take their complaints […]
As seen on Daring Fireball: The Featuritis Curve describes the ideal of creating a product that is as simple as possible, but not too simple. The article covers a lot of typical usability/HCI mantra as well.
Lately I’ve been finding more and more sites offering usability or human-computer interaction news. Planet HCI is a nice conglomeration of news, but it’s not all that well-filtered (there will often be a lot of repetition or news items which don’t apply, as with any Planet without flitering). Even better is Usability in the News. […]
Despite lack of interest in the other paper I posted, I’ve gone ahead and posted two more of my school papers. Hopefully someone out there finds them interesting. I certainly spent a lot of time on them!
This week’s OK/Cancel speaks of RSS. Kevin Cheng has posted a good article outlining many of the reasons I’ve felt uncomfortable with RSS. Well said, Kevin!
One of the classes I was fortunate enough to take this semester was entitled Computer-Mediated Communication. Susan Fussell taught it. The class helped me gain a much greater understanding of the academic world which does research on the very things I’ve spent a lot of time designing outside of academia. I enjoyed the class.
The end […]
Jef Raskin, one of the pioneers of Apple’s GUI and many other interface ideas, has passed away. He is the author of the excellent book, The Humane Interface. His modern views were in some areas somewhat extreme—but fields need extreme views. He was probably one of the main people who represented what I would call […]