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Thursday March 5, 2009
The Impress
This whole idea of using the natural reactions of physical media to manipulate the digital is so fascinating.
The Impress Video posted by Matt Donovan in Accessibility/Usability, Usability, User Experience .
Thursday March 5, 2009
Stream of consciousness on Microsoft Surface
This is floated through my mind while walking down the hall to get a drink:
“The future of interaction design is so circular – dials, ripples… water is a good analogy for Surface interactions. It’s organic – people understand how water reacts to the touch. Ripples. Ripples are so automatic. They just do stuff. What if the Surface was actually water… and the real ripples made things happen. Liquid computing! The AUTOMATION!!!”
Stream of consciousness on Microsoft Surface Snippet posted by Matt Donovan in Interface, Microsoft, Technology, User Experience .
Thursday February 12, 2009
EMC Consulting wins UX Solution of the Year at FASTForward 2009
Congrats to our UK sister-team for developing this Surface/Silverlight solution as an interface to FAST search technology . The application shown here is is live, not a hollywood-set demo. Each gesture interaction triggers a live query back to a FAST server in Boston.
We’re looking forward to more opportunities to work with Surface and Silverlight.
EMC Consulting wins UX Solution of the Year at FASTForward 2009 Video posted by Mark Kraemer in Information Design, Microsoft, Usability, User Experience, Visualization .
Friday January 9, 2009
Welcome. Now, don't come back.
If your RSS feed is well-highlighted (like, so a 6 year old could subscribe to it) and contains the right level of detail (unlike this blog), then your experience design should really focus on first-time visitors. Great blogs never require me to return.
Welcome. Now, don't come back. Snippet posted by Matt Donovan in Accessibility/Usability, Interface, Usability, User Experience .
Wednesday January 7, 2009
View more, if only a little
I’m seeing this “View More” link a lot lately. More often than not, the hidden content is no more than a few sentences long. I’m guessing this was implemented in the example above to keep the ads at the bottom of the screen from appearing below the virtual fold in instances when the selection box on the right is wider.
This just a friendly reminder to go back and test the dickens out of even the smallest features. Hiccups like this can easily be avoided.
View more, if only a little Image posted by Matt Donovan in Infographic, Interface, User Experience .
Tuesday December 9, 2008
Beating Down the Breadcrumbs
As powerful as SharePoint is, the MOSS user experience is pretty cough-cough-crappy-cough. The upside is, it provides plenty of opportunity to embrace constraints. I’ve identified a couple of small improvements for your next SharePoint implementation that will hopefully produce a more consistent experience for the people who will have to get to use it.
Beating Down the Breadcrumbs Article posted by Matt Donovan in Accessibility/Usability, Information Architecture, Sharepoint, Usability, User Experience, Visual Design .