12 days ago
nelson : Bad ballots - Great examples of the kinds of things that go wrong in election ballots
Rod Begbie : MPR: Challenged ballots: You be the judge - Good overview of the kinds of mistakes on ballots that are being challenged during the Minnesota recount. [via] #
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philgyford : How people really use the iPhone - SlideShare - Presentation on a company's user testing with iPhones. One thing not mentioned: although some people made mistakes, did they immediately learn from them, or did they keep making the same mistakes? Big difference I think. (via Chris Heathcote)
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Andy Baio : Fred Armisen shows off Weekend Update's new megapixel giant touch map - art imitates life [via]
nelson : HCI gone bad on TV - Great parody of all these silly interface gadgets TV stations are playing with
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3 month ago
nelson : Google UI experiments - Google discusses one of their most effective tools for improving user experience
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6 month ago
nelson : Direct manipulation video player - Watch the teaser video; interesting UI for seeking in video
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12 month ago
nelson : Sega Activator - Crazy full body game controller from 1994
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19 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies - “A survey of different kinds of interaction designs in movies during the past decades and relates the techniques of the films to existing technologies and prototypes.”
deusx : Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies - "Science Fiction movies have been a source for speculation about the future of technology and human computer interaction. This paper presents a survey of different kinds of interaction designs in movies during the past decades and relates the techniq
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27 month ago
cameron : Study pinpoints the limits of multitasking - Multitasking works best when inputs come from different stimuli.
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28 month ago
kellan : Boxes and Arrows Event Calendar - Attractive calendar of "interesting web-related events". In Rails. #
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28 month ago
philgyford : Clickdensity - website heat maps for usability and information architecture - Interesting-looking thing for measuring where people click on your pages (although I haven't tried it).
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30 month ago
joshua : BumpTop Prototype - lovely UI interaction with 3d documents on a platform
plasticbag : BumpTop Prototype uses a more physically realistic desktop metaphor, while combining it with the affordances of paper - It's completely beautiful and totally insane. God knows whether this will be the metaphor for manipulating documents in a few years. I wouldn't be surprised if large chunks of this kind of interaction appear all over the place. Beautiful. Interesting.
jkottke : BumpTop is a prototype of a new desktop metaphor for computing, and a pretty damn intriging one at that - You've probably seen this by now, but if you haven't, you should. BumpTop is a prototype of a new desktop metaphor for computing, and a pretty damn intriging one at that.
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31 month ago
plasticbag : The Christian Science Monitor has noise about a study on how e-mails are misinterpreted - At first glance this is a pretty mediocre story about the old truim that you can't convey emotion well on e-mail (something we've known since the mid-nineties). But this digs a little deeper than most stories and cites some good research...
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39 month ago
gleuschk : Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age - excellent points here
veen : Anonymous Usability Designer: Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age - Good article, though a little like writing "Why the telegraph is unsuited for voice"
plasticbag : Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age - This piece really reminds me of my old boss Stefan Magdalinski, except without the slightly crazed look, bead of sweat and slathering...
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42 month ago
philgyford : Trains :: NYC High Line, 02/2004 (kottke.org) - I love the subtle navigation on Jason's new photo library pages.
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