SubscribeI decided to post some of my work from the end of last year, below is a cut down version of the design brief followed by 3 proposals. After each proposal I’ll follow up with some advantages and disadvantages to the design.
The Brief
To successfully enhance the visitor experience within a museum environment, that has [...]
Wings On Some Wheels
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Category: HCI
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A Voice Drawing Tool
You bored? Give Ze Frank’s voice drawing tool a spin. All you need is a mic connected to your computer to start sketching (it sounds weird I know), but you’ll soon get the hang of it.
Remember : To draw straight lines maintain a medium pitch, lower/raise your voice to draw curves.
I’ve wasted half my [...]
Small Annoyance
I’m not going to moan much, but look at this;
(link) I wanted to find the weather in ‘South Shields’, but what page does ‘S’ begin on? Page 5? Who knows? The numerical list above is giving the user no indication, which is highly annoying. Why aren’t they utilising a alphabetical list instead?
i.e. a,b,c,d,e…
I got [...]
IDEO – ‘Deep Dive’
Last week in class we got presented with a video from IDEO in Palo Alto and their unique brand of brainstorming called ”Deep Dive,” a sort of total immersion into the problem at hand. It’s one company’s secret weapon for innovation. I liked it, I liked their process, but you can make up your own [...]
Usability in Remote Controls
I have just found these simplified TV remote controls from Bill Moggridge’s "Designing Interactions". It is a interesting concept, what buttons on your remote do you use daily?
-Kyle
p.s kylemayne.com is still alive
Possible Firefox Mobile UI in Action
Aza Raskin (son of Jef who you maybe familiar with), head of UX at Mozilla Labs, shows off some very neat designs being considered for Mozilla Mobile.
Check it out if you hadn’t already;
Maybe I’m a little undereducated in what Aza is saying above. He specifically states the interface does not allow multi-touch based interaction, [...]
I want one.
Forget about the smart phone being the true ubiquitous input device BLAH, it is a pen…
I would like one, although I dislike the fact you have to use their paper, although for £75 I don’t think it is that bad.
-Kyle
Official Site
P.S Watch out for the Piano function.
HCI Stanford Seminars
Over on the IxDA discussion list, a contributor posted about the availability on iTunes of Stanford University lectures in human-computer interaction.
I just browsed the list of seminars and some of the topics look rather interesting. Below, is a selection of the videos I’ll be watching first.
Sketching and Experience Design, Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research, Spring 2007 [...]