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Monday October 12, 2009
Below the Surface →
Our own EMC Consulting’s Rich Wand shares thoughts on successful Surface and NUI interactions based on his experience designing for the platform. He covers several great tips for NUI designers and developers. Well worth the read if you’re working with Surface or similar natural user interfaces.
Below the Surface Link posted by Mark Kraemer in Interface, Mobile, .Net, Usability, User Experience .
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 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 .
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 .
Friday August 29, 2008
Auto-correct FTW!
I’ve turned off most auto-correct functionality in Word and PowerPoint, because they typically don’t correctly identify my intentions. I meant that to be a dash. Please don’t change it to an em dash!
But recently I’ve seen auto-correct features that are truly useful. In this example from the Mac version of NEAT Receipts, I can type a literal like “wednesday,” or “last tuesday,” or “next monday” and it will look up the date for me.
Details like that provide great ease of use and a sense of friendliness.
Have you found other examples like this in the wild? Share them with us in the comments below.
Auto-correct FTW! Image posted by Mark Kraemer in Usability .
Friday August 8, 2008
The Design Looks Like A Heather But Sounds Like Tom Waits
The question then becomes, is a positive response to good design natural or learned? Is it instinctual or intellectual? Steve Krug in his book, “Don’t Make Me Think!” has stated (and I paraphrase) if the user is taking the time to think then the usability of the design should be questioned. That said…could good design exist outside of usability and if so does the lack of usability devalue the design or relegate it to–design for design’s sake?
The Design Looks Like A Heather But Sounds Like Tom Waits Article posted by T. Scott Stromberg in Design, Information Design, Usability .