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Don Norman’s book “ Design of Everyday Things ” taught me the importance of usability, and his book on “ Emotional Design ” taught me the critical role that aesthetics play in overall user experience. When I see designs that beautifully unite both usability
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As I was doing my daily reading this morning, I came across three presentations related to mobile design. BBC news today also had a article on Mobile Web experience. It seems everyone is excited about the future of mobile devices and what they can do
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Silverlight , Microsoft’s plug-in for delivering cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and experiences has been out for a while now. The first, JavaScript-only version was released at Microsoft’s MIX07 conference in May of 2007.
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From now through the end of the MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Rob Burke will be providing his insights from the conference on a daily basis. Robert Burke is a Toronto-based IT Consultant who’s attending his fourth MIX event this year. By day he’s
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I had the opportunity to present at the Metro Toronto .NET User Group last Wednesday. Even it was the first snow of the winter in GTA, but there were still more than 40 people showed up to listen to my talk on "Building for People: 5 Practical Tips
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Happy World Usability Day everyone! This year's theme is "Transportation." There are tons of webcasts on the World Usability Day website and a message from Bill Gates. We have the following WUD events in Canada. Listen to a webcast or attending
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The above figure is taken from Effective Designs for the Administration of Federal Election As the whole world is waiting for who's going to be the next US president, I came across this interesting interview on ballet design and usability this
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Last Thursday I went to the Waterloo User Experience Group monthly meeting on Eye-Tracking technology used in usability practice. It was my first time observing eye-tracking technology in action - quite interesting! The hardware setup for eye-tracking
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Last Thursday, the World Usability Day (WUD) 2007, I went to TorCHI's special event celebrating WUD. It was nice to greet people attending the event with "Happy World Usability Day" and got equally warm greetings back. A friend of mine told me that she
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