It’s that time of year again… If you’re planning to attend next week’s conference, please stop by and say hi. And if you still haven’t decided what presentations to attend, here are a few where I’m participating and which I think will be very interesting (even though I may be a little biased ) Introduction [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by the cross-pollination that can be achieved when various fields and disciplines work together. As you might have noticed from my various posts, I also like to keep an eye out for opportunities in the UI field – things happening in other fields that may not be working together in ours [...]
While doing some research on Multimodal Usability and User Interfaces, I ran across a list of Three Main Attributes of Multimodal User Interfaces, which on careful thought, can definitively be applied to ANY User Interface. It was a nice refresher which reminded me of why good design is so difficult to achieve, but very rewarding. [...]
Here in the VUIDesign blog, we’ve covered more than a few free cell phone services that provide great value (particularly considering the cost), are very easy to use, convenient and flat out helpful. Therefore I was very happy to see Mr. Pogue cover three of my favorites on his Personal Tech blog (the video is [...]
Finally had a chance to look at this month’s cover article of the SpeechTEK magazine. What a joy! I was very pleased to see that once again, the topic of Translations (which I often refer to as “Transgressions”) comes up in an attempt to raise awareness about the implications of simply taking content in once [...]
It seems one of the most frequent questions that come up when designing a new user interface is “how many options should appear on any given menu?” which depending on the answer is almost always followed by “how many levels down should the system have?” And believe me, neither one has an easy or absolute [...]
I recently ran across a series of posts and a SpeechTEK magazine article about a new service currently in Private Beta called Fonolo. The premise is definitively very interesting. What this Canadian start-up is attempting to do is to replicate the concept of bookmarking and deep linking (process of linking pages in the lower levels [...]
I recently got a link from Amy Quinn pointing out an article entitled “101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site” provided by InsideCRM, and though it might be helpful to go over some of those points in the list and hence suggest “21 Quick Fixes” (granted they might take a little more than [...]
How good is automation when it only works for part of the process? That’s what I often wondered while traveling since in many occasions I’ve found myself trying to use technology only to find out it didn’t save me from having to get in line at the airport. For example, sometimes you try to check-in [...]
As if not enough discussion has been generated over this particular UI design tool on the VUIDs group, it seems the 37 signals post about how they don’t use Personas stirred yet another round of arguments on both their own site as well as in some other UI-related blogs such as Good Experience and The [...]
