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July
31st, 2000 |
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Eric
Bergman is an Interaction Designer with the User Experience
Group within the Consumer and Embedded Division at Sun
Microsystems. Bergman is evidently well connected as the
back cover carries quotes from both Jakob
Nielsen and Alan
Cooper, the foreword is by Donald
Norman, with a chapter contributed by Aaron
Marcus.
Bergman
has collected a series of war stories from the trenches
of companies such as Psion, Nokia and Palm. A timely book
then, that looks at the emergence of "other"
devices and the problems they introduce for interaction
designers.
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July
29th, 2000 |
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In
Part 3, we look at how all the work in part 2 developing infrastructure
can be made to pay off and deliver real advantages. We look
at how to protect the system from unexpected browser (client-side)
events or activities such as refresh, back, and bookmarks. We
will see that this can be achieved with a single piece of code
to manage all of this activity.
We
will also see how Statecharts can be used to cleanly model the
boundaries of logical transactions and how the MVC engine can
be used to provide protection of these transaction boundaries
and scoping using a single piece of code.
Finally
we will look at how exceptions to normal operation can be cleanly
handled and implemented within the same system.
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July
29th, 2000 |
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Clark
Stone wrote:
I
went to JefRaskin.com
and looked at the summary of "The Humane Interface."
With that limitation, I have some serious misgivings about what
Raskin appears to support and how it appears to conflict with
the usual vectors of your own site. In particular, I am concerned
about what appears to be an uncritical support for a-modal interaction
and its obvious real-world conflict with what is "humane."
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Mary Deaton wrote: I have been decrying the smallness of the
screen on all of the so-called handhelds, and actually had the
thought a day or three ago that why not just let people talk
and use voice as the input and output device for mobile web
access?...
My point is, why are we obsessing about small screens when perhaps
we need no screen at all?
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July
28th, 2000 |
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The
merger of AOL/Time Warner/EMI makes a great deal of sense when
you consider the difficulty rivals will have in delivering a
competitive user experience on the web. The reason AOL has an
advantage is simple, they have the ability to control the whole
product and produce a coherent design. They have the desirable
back end content from Time Warner EMI, the distribution mechanism
through the AOL portal and the delivery mechanism with the Netscape
browser. In short the ability to deliver an end-to-end user
experience. So far without an equivalent competitor.
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July
27th, 2000 |
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Alan
Cooper has been quite vocal about the poor interfaces on email
programs. He has maintained that there is a huge business opportunity
for someone to go off and develop a really usable email interface.
Andrei Sedelnikov agrees with him and has addressed some of
the more obvious issues in this
article at his For
Better Software webzine.
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July
5th, 2000 |
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The
mantra of the last 15 years has been "leave the mainframe
alone". The only legitimate excuse for changing legacy
systems was Y2K compliance. Now that we're safely into the 21st
century, conventional wisdom would have it, that you can put
your old COBOL programmer out to grass. Maybe not! Some legacy
systems are seriously inhibiting the information age user experience.
It's time to change the big iron!
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more ...
What
the readership is saying about this article (updated July 26th)...
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