Archive for the ‘User eXperience Design’ Category

Social Media User Profiles

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Creators Critics Collectors Joiners Spectators Inactives Based on a Forrester Research report on Social Media

Continuous partial attention

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; ...

Mobile phone user research opportunties in Bangalore

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

UPA Bangalore is planning to undertake a non-profit study, to understand smart-phone usage pattern, among tech and business users in Bangalore. The aim is to understand how power users like to improve the manner in which they use their smart phones and also identify existing pain-points. We are looking for volunteers ...

Eye movement simulator

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 ...

Icon Design

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Brushin’ up old skills for fun