Usability Terms Explained: Context of Use for better Interface Design – Part 2
In part 2 of this blog post on context of use I shall look more intricately into the relationship between context of use analysis and user interface design. Context of use analysis and user interface...
View ArticleWhat to do When “Translating” a Website into Chinese
In this blog post, inspired by a German blog by Christian Seifert, I shall look at some of the interface design challenges that interface designers encounter when porting a website over to its Chinese...
View ArticleUser Interface Design Methods Explained: Accessibility Design – Part 2
This blog post is the second in a series of two about accessibility design as a usability method The aims of accessibility design Accessibility design is specifically targeted at designing user...
View ArticleHuman Computer Interaction (HCI) – Part 2
This blog post is the second in a series of two about Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Principles of User Interface Design for HCI systems Since I am looking at HCI relative to interface design, it is...
View ArticleDesign methods in tandem: usability and desirability Part – 2
Desirability and usability as a design team According to John Soellner’s article “Design, Usability, Desirability, What’s The Difference?” desirability design is “about expanding on the idea of what...
View ArticleUser interface design terms explained: Gender HCI as a usability method – Part 2
This is the second part of my 2-part blog on Gender HCI, starting with a continuation of topics explored in Gender HCI. What topics are explored in Gender HCI? In addition to the aforementioned studies...
View ArticleUser Interface Design Terms Explained: Ethnography – Part 2
This is the second part of my two-part blog on ethnography and its relation to usability engineering and user interface design. How to conduct an ethnographical usability test Ethnographic studies tend...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle User Interface Design Issues
According to TechCrunch researchers from the University of Washington undertook a study on the usability and user interface design of the Kindle among its student body. The findings suggest the user...
View ArticleThe Frontiers of Natural User Interface Design Part 2
In the first part of this blog post on the frontiers of natural user interface design I touched on the use of touch and audio. In the rest of this blog post I shall briefly look at further frontiers of...
View ArticleThe Skeuomorphic User Interface Design of the Djay iPad App
Everything about Algoriddim’s Djay iPad app screams out “this is what all the post-PC fuss is all about”! When discussing the merits of tablets with a developer friend of mine she basically concluded...
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