Archive for the ‘Usability’ Category
Friday, May 30th, 2008
“continuous partial attention n. A state in which most of one’s attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up. Also: CPA.”
Continuous partial attention is one of the side effects of mobile networked computing; ...
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, User eXperience Design, Mobile Phones | No Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The image below displays a simulation of human eye movement in the form of heat maps.
The Feng-GUI heatmap service is an automatic alternative to eye-tracking. Unlike eye-tracking or click-based heatmaps, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would be most likely to look ...
Posted in Cognitive Psychology, User eXperience Design, Usability | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Here’s the executive summary of usability test findings conducted on 3 next-generation smartphones: the Nokia N95, the HTC touch, and the Apple iPhone.
Users with no smartphone experience conducted a series of 8 tasks on each device in order to determine how the devices fared in terms of overall usability. ...
Posted in User Centered Design, User eXperience Design, Usability, Mobile Phones, Apple iPhone Tricks,Bugs,Hacks | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Just unlocked my brand new Apple iPhone with a firmware version of 1.1.4
Unlocking iPhone for FREE:
Downloaded and installed the free unlocking software Ziphone version 3.0 (30th of March 2008), from www.ziphone.org
Connected iPhone to my laptop
Disabled iTunes and related daemons & services.
Uninstalled Apple update program/li>
Ran ZiPhoneGUI.exe software ...
Posted in Bangalore, Voice of the User - VOU, User eXperience Design, Usability, Product Design, Mobile Phones, Gadget Design, Cool Stuff, Apple iPhone Tricks,Bugs,Hacks | 3 Comments »
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Last evening, about 45 participants had a good time attending an exciting interactive session on “Creativity and design thinking for achieving breakthrough innovations” by Murli Nagasundaram
Murli used Porsche and i-Pod examples to illustrate how user experiences are conceived in a wholistic manner to appeal to user’s multiple senses and ...
Posted in Bangalore, Usability, Events, Unconferences and Conferences | No Comments »