As Mitchell Kapor states in his Software Design Manifesto: “If a user interface is designed ‘after the fact’ it is like designing an automobile dashboard after the engine, chassis, and…
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A great read on possible reasons behind the failure of MySpace. It brings up an interesting point that good UX design does not necessarily mean giving users exactly what they…
read moreVirtuality is often described by what it is not: “virtuality is not real,” “virtuality is not material; “virtuality is not the physical world,” etc. But it is counter-productive to constantly…
read moreHuman-computer interaction is a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems for human use and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them. Accordingly, the…
read moreMany believe that Morton Heilig was the first person to attempt to create what we now call virtual reality (Packer & Jordan, Eds., 2001), and in 1955 he wrote a…
read moreAn interesting article on applying Agile methodologies to user experience design. Excerpt from the article… 12 common practices of agile UXD: Drive: UX practitioners are part of the customer or…
read moreWhat is Narrative? Let’s begin with a few definitions: “A narrative is a sign with a signifier (discourse) and a signified (story, mental image, semantic representation). The signifier can have…
read moreLev Manovich refers to the interactivity that uses fixed elements arranged in a branching structure as closed interactivity; interactivity where both the elements and the structure are generated dynamically in…
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