Last night I had the opportunity of attending the Sydney June meet of the Web Standards Group (WSG), a local chapter of developers and designers pushing for web accessibility. The …
The Apple Software Design guidelines
Apple has published a series of guidelines to help developers or anyone who wants to develop for the OS X platform. The guidelines are intended to help through obstacles that …
OZCHI 2004 at the UOW 22-24 November
OZCHI is the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia. It is Australia and New Zealand’s leading forum …
NNG Usability Week 2004
The Nielsen Norman Group, have just added a Sydney usability leg to the upcoming Melbourne, Australia conference. The Usability Week 2004 conference focuses on a variety of areas, including practical …
Furl – an interesting bookmark manager
Earl Mardle has written a blog post to a really cool tool called, Furl, that helps organise manage and tidy up your bookmarks. Although currently in Beta there are some …
Key Research Findings in User-Centered Design (2002-2003)
I was reading a few newsletters and I came across the December 2003 UI Design Newsletter from Human Factors International. The newsletter includes some interesting findings by, Dr. Kath Straub, …
Start of final semester
As the final week of uni break approaches and the beginning of my last semester at uni commences, I’ve once again started revising notes and catching up on readings and …
Ubiquitous Computing – Vodafone’s vision of the future
Last year I had the opportunity to study a post-grad subject called Interaction Design at UTS with Dr. Toni Robertson. The subject taught us about usability, HCI, heuristics and touched …
Dynabook Revisited – a conversation with Alan Kay
Peter J. Bogaards from BogieLand has posted an interesting link to a series of essays by Alan Kay from Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). One of the essays is …
IAThink on colour blindness and usability
Heidi Adkisson from IA Think has posted an interesting blog entry on some of the usability concerns with colour blindness and the hyperlink.
Keeping Found Things Found
A great article from the AScribe Newswire on Web users and their ability to find, store and later recollect links and useful information. The article comments that keeping track of …
3G User Interface articles
The 3GPortal have a collection of interesting articles which discuss interface design issues in mobile and portable computing. The website has some interesting links to articles on Design, Future developments, …
The Nokia Research Library
The Nokia Research Library contains some interesting journal and conference papers on Audio and Visual Communication Systems, Electronics, Mobile Networks, User Interfaces (Speech, Visual), Security and Usability and Ergonomics.
Card sorting tool by IBM – EZSort (beta)
IBM have a Beta Card-Sorting tool that helps interface designers organize information based on users’ expectations. The software comes with 2 packages – USort and EZCalc, and can be used …
Usability Myths discussion in CHI-WEB
There is currently a great discussion underway in the ACM CHI-WEB list on Usability Myths.