Monday, August 06, 2007
Plastic figurine as input
Fisher-Price has launched the Easy Link Internet Launch Pad. The kid can interact with the computer safely by introducing different figurines in a USB hub. For each character a different website is loaded into the browser.
It is another case of reducing the power of a platform for a very focused niche, or the less is more principle.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Measuring UI Productivity with Himalia
I was reading the Jakob Nielsen's article about Productivity and Screen Size. He says: "Productivity is one of usability's most important elements", and he is right :)
I think that the Himalia's approach facilitates the way User Interface productivity can be measured. I believe we can find a way to measure it automatically, maybe setting the weight of each Use Case for each profile (or "Persona"?). At least, we should be able to compare the productivity of two different user interfaces definitions solving the same user goals against one specific criteria, and that is better than nothing.
Now, I am adding it to the ToDo list. Who knows?
Labels: HCI, Himalia, Productivity
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Designing Interfaces
Well, finally I bought the Jenifer Tidwell's book.
But once I had it, she decided to move it into a new site showing there nearly the whole book! Ok, no problem. I prefer to read from real paper sometimes ;)
Although I think it's a very good basic-book covering most of the aspect of designing a user interface, I think it is very pour in navigation issues. I discover some time ago that Human-Computer researchers where not connected at all with Hypermedia researchers, and it is a huge waste.
Hypermedia patterns can be found here.
Labels: HCI, Hypermedia, Patterns
