RT @humanfactors: Lessons from the Facebook design team
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Most websites are crammed with small text that’s a pain to read. Why? There is no reason for squeezing so much information onto the screen. It’s just a stupid collective mistake that dates back to a time when screens were really, really small. So…

RT @_wirr_: hmm, looks interesting. what do you think? #gui #hci #usability (via @benfreu)

A new process, visual-syntactic text formatting (VSTF), transforms block-shaped text into cascading patterns that help readers identify grammatical structure.

The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided. [...]

“Why can’t products be simpler?” cries the reviewer in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the local newspaper. “We want simplicity” cry the people befuddled by all the features of their latest whatever. Do they really mean it? No.

Tangent is a multi-touch research platform; a digital medium for testing and developing new intuitive interaction techniques. In the last twenty years the classic computer interface mouse-keyboard-screen has hardly changed. But now Tangent offers a di

A mobile becomes many things you need: When more functions must be put into a single device; when a mobile phone tries to do everything, the solutions are always too complex. The functionality losses its familiar forms to communicate with users that resul

A two-part podcast of my discussions with John Edson, President of Lunar Design, recorded at their Palo Alto, California design office.

Appeal is a living experiment in progressive development and organizational concepts as applied to KDE (http://www.kde.org). Within the Appeal environment the practices of art, usability and software development are brought together during the earliest

Better Desktop is a project dedicated to sharing usability data with Linux developers. Over the past year, we have conducted many usability tests on different parts of the KDE and GNOME desktops. We created this site to serve as a place where developers c

The Information Architecture Institute's Tools project aims to disseminate new IA tools from the community in order to learn from each other. Below you will find document templates, process map posters and other tools to help you in your practice. The doc

An Informal Tool For Early Stage Web Site and UI Design DENIM is a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the levels through zooming. [

BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.