Bookmarks tagged with “hci” Polytechnic

UX Design Articles and Books from the Interaction Design Foundation

Bookmarked on 10:42 on 24 Jun 2021 • #

Open Innovation Toolkit

"The Open Innovation Toolkit is a community sourced set of best practices and principles to help you incorporate human-centered design into your product development process."

Bookmarked on 09:34 on 15 Sep 2016 • #

First-Hand:No Damned Computer is Going to Tell Me What to DO - The Story of the Naval Tactical Data System, NTDS

Bookmarked on 12:54 on 2 Dec 2015 • #

OmniFocus 1.8 Design Report

Interesting look at the iterative improvements made to the OmniFocus UI between v1.0 and 1.8.

Bookmarked on 12:18 on 16 Sep 2010 • #

CogTool

A general purpose UI prototyping tool that automatically evaluates your design with a predictive human performance model (a "cognitive crash dummy").

Bookmarked on 09:28 on 20 Aug 2010 • #

Prefab

Modifying interfaces via pixel-based reverse engineering and then adding enhancements such as sticky icons and phosphor.

Bookmarked on 09:25 on 6 Apr 2010 • #

Eliminating the Power Cord

The legacy of Jef Raskin's "Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer" and it's impact on the longevity of data.

Bookmarked on 13:48 on 29 Mar 2010 • #

Coding Horror: The Opposite of Fitts' Law

What to do with UI elements we don't want users to click on?

Bookmarked on 14:38 on 28 Mar 2010 • #

Track Mouse Activity On Your Computer

I like the idea of finding patterns in my mouse activity, not sure if I like it enough to install an unknown piece of software.

Bookmarked on 11:18 on 9 Feb 2010 • #

Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display

Combining pneumatics and back projection to create dynamic tactile interfaces

Bookmarked on 10:49 on 27 Jul 2009 • #

Userfly usability studies

Instant usability studies using javascript.

Bookmarked on 15:22 on 14 Jan 2009 • #

ATM interface redesigned

Case study of Wells Fargo bank redesigning their ATM user interface.

Bookmarked on 10:12 on 9 Jun 2008 • #

Automotive interface design

CNet runs through some of the best and worst examples of in-car LCD use. They all look terrible to me, is this really the best the car manufacturers can do?

Bookmarked on 10:03 on 19 Feb 2008 • #

Advancing Advanced Search

Ideas and tips on how to improve the utility of an advanced search option.

Bookmarked on 11:34 on 23 Jan 2008 • #

Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design

From "Designing the User Interface" by Ben Shneiderman

Bookmarked on 20:34 on 17 Jan 2008 • #

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Patterns for navigation, layout, interaction and customisation

Bookmarked on 14:28 on 22 Oct 2007 • #

Visualizing Fitts’s Law

The clearest explanation I've seen of this key part of the user experience.

Bookmarked on 11:58 on 5 Oct 2007 • #

11 usability principles for CMS products

"The functionality of the content management system (CMS) is obviously a key deciding factor when purchasing a new product. Equally important is the usability of the CMS."

Bookmarked on 11:48 on 15 Aug 2007 • #

BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess

Interesting new desktop system using physics and 'grabability' as a way of interacting with files.

Bookmarked on 16:26 on 5 Jun 2007 • #

Content-aware scrolling

Very interesting demo of multicolumn scrolling widget.

Bookmarked on 13:14 on 11 Apr 2007 • #

The Page Paradigm

"In my nine years of working on the Web's user experience, a lot has changed online - but one thing that hasn't changed much is the way that users navigate websites." - Mark Hurst