Nov 28 2011
The Evolution of Google Search
Learn how 9/11 dramatically influenced Google search…
and how its UX needs will influence the future of search.
Archive for November, 2011
Nov 22 2011
Researchers Build Micro-HUD Contact Lens
This is so neat!
“Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully built and tested what may be the first-ever heads-up display contact lens. For now, the lens displays only a single, well-focused pixel and the wireless power is only enough to give the appearance of constant illumination, but this is the first step toward, as researchers describe it, building lenses that may receive data from external platforms (e.g., mobile phones) and provide real-time noti?cation of important events.”
Nov 22 2011
Interviewing Candidates for UX Jobs
“Each month in Ask UXmatters, our panel of UX experts answers readers’ questions about a broad range of user experience matters. In this edition of Ask UXmatters, our experts discuss how to interview and evaluate the work of a potential UX team member.”
Read the full article at UXmatters.
Nov 18 2011
An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability
“The ISO 9241 standard defines website usability as the “effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which specified users achieve specified goals in particular environments.” When using a website, users have a particular goal. If designed well, the website will meet that goal and align it with the goals of the organization behind the website. Standing between the user’s goal and the organization’s goals is very often a form, because, despite the advances in human-computer interaction, forms remain the predominant form of interaction for users on the Web. In fact, forms are often considered to be the last and most important stage of the journey to the completion of goals.”
Read the full article at Smashing Magazine.
