Usability Beyond the Classroom – Jon Bell
Consistency is great.
Predictability is better.
Simple isn’t neccessarily easy
isn’t neccessarily good design.
Testing is vital and unreliable.
Consistency is great.
Predictability is better.
Simple isn’t neccessarily easy
isn’t neccessarily good design.
Testing is vital and unreliable.

Sample sketches exploring alternate ways to access site level commands in SharePoint 2010. (via Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : UX Design Tools & Techniques)

Veronica and Sadie are on the gondola in Banff, AB
This is a great presentation, definately the best concise explanation I have seen.
A group of Microsoft researchers has built a kind of multitouch for the conventional keyboard… It allows a keyboard to accept pressure-sensitivity data, from which it can infer user intentions. – Chris Dannen for Fast Company
I really love how this looks like it can be a simple inexpensive way to have new gestural interfaces enhance the work and play we do today.
Watching this video is like staring at the incoming tsunami. I’m excited and also terrified by the fact that in my career I will not only be designing experiences for kids like this but his kids.