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Editorial Comment
Aug 20th, 2000
 

i-Byte your Cents Off
When more means more, "less is more" takes a back seat

 
 

With GPRS on its way, the wireless internet industry is gearing up to switch to a pay-for-what-you-download style of billing. This model is being pioneered in Japan by NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode service. As the mobile phone carriers rub their hands with glee at the prospect of increased billing, what does paying for what you download mean for usability?

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NewsReport
Aug 17th, 2000

New Wireless Design Portal

 
 


Wireless Design News

uidesign.net is previewing a new service for professionals involved in the design and development of wireless internet devices and content and future mobile information appliances. Wireless Design News will feature daily links to design related articles and news stories from around the world, updated 24 hours by a team of contributors from 4 continents.

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ConferenceNews
Aug 14th, 2000

Tupis 2000
Towards a UML Profile for Interactive System Development

 
 

Building interactive systems that are efficient and reliable in use, easy to learn and remember, and that provide user satisfaction is one of the greatest challenges of the software industry. The TUPIS workshops seeks to discuss the potential and limitations of the UML to integrate human-computer interaction knowledge, thereby devising a set of notational extensions that could effectively be used in a real world scenario to improve interactive system development.

Tupis 2000 Official site

 
     
Offsite
Aug 14th, 2000
 

UML for UI
Canonical component based abstract prototypes

 
 

Larry Constantine has recently convened a working group to merge his Usage Centered Design approach with the UML and Unified Development Process. Some early results are emerging. This working paper [pdf] on Abstract Prototyping is the first.

 
     
Editorial Comment
Aug 8th, 2000
 

A WAP on the Knuckles
Can the industry learn the lessons from WAP?

 
 

The knives are out for WAP technology. Following the huge hype of the last 12 months, it's becoming apparent that it just isn't delivering. Naturally, the naysayers have now become the "told-you-so-ers". However, the disappointment of WAP technology needs some more careful analysis. The industry deserves a good wrap on the knuckles. Much of what has happened was avoidable. Will the lessons be learned?

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readers' comments about this article (updated Aug 17th)...

 
     
Offsite
Aug 8th, 2000
 

Usable Mobile
Vincent Helyar's new discussion group

 
 

Vincent Helyar of Serco has started a new discussion focusing on the design challenges of the mobile internet and wireless web enabled devices. Interested? Sign up at www.usablemobile.com.

 
     
 
NewsReport
Aug 2nd, 2000

New UI Jobs Service

 
 

Following our recent experiment with a jobs page and by much popular demand, uidesign.net announces a new fuller service. Over the next few months we hope to grow this to be the premier destination for job listings in the fields of interaction design, human factors, information architecture and usability engineering.

Employers or agents wishing to list jobs should contact jobs@uidesign.net.

 
     
 
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