Tag Archive for 'usability'

These are my links for May 11th:

Usability of iPad Apps and Websites: First Research Findings – "This report is based on usability studies with real users, reporting how they actually used a broad variety of iPad apps as well as websites accessed on the iPad."<br />
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93 page report on research carried out by the Nielsen Norman Group. Some good points on usability and design problems around the perceived affordances of on screen elements, navigation and gestures.

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These are my links for November 13th:

Create with Context – How people really use the iPhone – A pdf presentation based on a usability study of iPhone applications. via Overlobe
RjDj – This looks really really cool. It is an application and system for listening to generative music on the iPhone. Tracks or 'scenes' can respond to sounds in the listener's environment via microphone, sampling and incorporating them into the music in real time as well as motion data from the inbuilt accelerometers. Scenes can be created using open source audiovisual programming environment PD. Makes me really want an iPhone!

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These are my links for August 10th:

WP CODA – A WordPress theme which uses jQuery to allow the user to browse through individual pages/tabs with an sliding animation. It looks all cool and flash like, but it removes the ability to permalink to a particular page. Still, could be a useful technique for the right kind of site.
FriendFeed – FriendFeed aggregates all of your activity from sites like Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Last.fm, YouTube and Vimeo into one place. It also provides an RSS feed with this combined content and a widget for embedding on any webpage. It also has an API for developer use which can return data in XML or JSON, nice.

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These are my links for August 8th through August 9th:

User Interaction 101 – A good, straightforward introduction to the topic.
Ping.fm / Update all of your social networks at once! – Lets you update your status once and have it propagated through a variety of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn…
plainview – mac-based full-screen browser – A full screen web browser based on webkit (same as safari). Really neat simple idea. Looks great for installations and perfect for VideoDefunct. There's something very calming about not being able to see the desktop, dock, other applications, windows etc.
The MsBehaviour Files: X|Media|Lab Melbourne: DIY TV :: The Big Idea :: an online community of New Zealand's creative industries – Helen Baxter aka MsBehaviour's write up of X|Media|Lab Melbourne.
HPLHS Prop Fonts – A collection of ye-olde H. P. Lovecraft inspired fonts (via BoingBoing)