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The Backlash: "User-Led Innovation Can't Create Breakthroughs"

 

Hello fellow researchers, [more...]

Ten years of Critical Design!

 
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It is now ten years since Anthony Dunne published the "Hertzian Tales". We might count it as the official birthday of Critical Design. I would like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to look back: What has happened to design practice and theory during the last decade due to the book, and the projects? What have we learned? What do we miss? Where does the critique lead us? How does it help? Does it help? [more...]

Everything is getting better

Dear group,

Now we finally have evidence, that usability is not impossible.
The new coulour scheme with much ligter colours and less contrast is much better to look at. [more...]

Usability: The International Parking Meters Study by UXalliance

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To celebrate the world usability day (wasnt it just one blink away in November?) the international network for user experience (UXalliance) published a study on parking meters.

The International Parking Meters Study will explore interface and interaction design of parking meters around the world and examine different parking meter interfaces and the common problem of designing an interface to accommodate a broad range of users trying to achieve multiple tasks. [more...]

Usability: Web Writing Tips

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via Tutorialblog

Visitors to your Web site - and also on forums like this - won’t read much of your content word-for-word. They’ll skim the text and selectively focus on key words that catch their eyes. Some Web usability gurus, such as Jakob Nielsen, call this phenomenon “scannability.”

You will not change your way of writing research texts, but think about the different styles of communication!

Here are some top-10 rules that make your posting more readable to others: [more...]