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• Misguided striving for perfection

  
  Pointless Anecdotes — Authority: 126
  When people say that something works “works like a machine” the implication is that this work is not only ceaseless but flawless . In particular this seems to appply to machine intelligence, intelligent robots and computers are, not only in fiction, assumed to have all information—and correct information ...
  2 days ago

• Healthcare IT Failure and The Arrogance of the IT Industry

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  In the Wall Street Journal healthcare blog post " Safety Guru: ‘Health IT Is Harder Than It Looks’ " here , reporter Jacob Goldstein reports on UC San Francisco hospitalist Bob Wachters commentary that: read more
  3 days ago

• Jakob Nielsen’s Ten Usability Heuristics

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 110
  These are ten general principles for user interface design suggested by Jakob Nielsen . They are called heuristics because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines. Visibility of system status — The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, ...
  4 days ago

• 70 Years of ATM Innovation

  
  Blogging Innovation — Authority: 139
  Still Struggling To Make Them Scam Proof by Idris Mootee It is all about the human factors. I find that people are over-concerned with online security every time there is a piece of news about identity theft on TV. It is really not that bad and we need to accept the fact that it will not go away. Whatever ...
  4 days ago

• Listen to Fred Beecher’s “Integrating Effective Prototyping into Your Design Process” talk at IA Summit 2009

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 130
  Senior User Experience Consultant Fred Beecher shows his audience how to determine what, for your particular situation, is the most effective way to use prototyping to improve the user experience of your site or software. He shares the factors that influence how effective various prototyping methodologies will be ...
  1 week ago

• Real Benefits of the new Retweet Function

  
  Prototype of a Person — Authority: 107
  I seem to be in a minority group that sees the potential that the new twitter re-tweet function brings. For someone that has worked on a method of highlighting Irish tweets for the benefit of non-twitter users and anyone offline for a long period of time, it’s possible that I’m able to see the potential a ...
  1 week ago

• Free No More?

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Rupert Murdoch has long been looking for a way to drive a stake through the heart of the information-wants-to-be-free vampire. Is Microsoft now offering him that stake? According to a team of Financial Times reporters tracking a common story from bases in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, this may ...
  1 week ago

• FujiFilm announces a HUGE Half Price sale with Free Shipping at SeeHere

  
  Stealth Acquisitions — Authority: 125
  For 2 days only, receive 50% Off All Purchases, excluding prints!With Free Standard Shipping on Photo Books, Gifts and orders of 60 or more Photo Cards, this deal is sure to be hot for those looking to personalize their holiday gifts this year.50% Off All Photo Gifts & Books plus Free Standard Shipping – ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fuji Film announces a HUGE Half Price sale with Free Shipping at SeeHere

  
  Stealth Acquisitions — Authority: 125
  For 2 days only, receive 50% Off All Purchases, excluding prints!With Free Standard Shipping on Photo Books, Gifts and orders of 60 or more Photo Cards, this deal is sure to be hot for those looking to personalize their holiday gifts this year.50% Off All Photo Gifts & Books plus Free Standard Shipping – ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lund’s Expert Ratings of Usability Maxims

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 110
  Published in the Ergonomics in Design journal in 1997 [1] , Arnold Lund collected and created this list of 34 rules-of-thumb (given below in order of priority) that were found particularly useful during the design process by colleagues working in the human-computer interaction ( HCI ) design field. The list is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Personal Tech: Medical Apps for the iPhone

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  From NY Times Personal Tech: Medical Apps for the iPhone After a lot of time reading "best medical apps" stories online, asking Twitter users for their suggestions and reading online reviews, I finally boiled the list down to about 50 promising apps. I tried them out and further winnowed the list to a bunch that I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Human-Computer Interaction

  
  Chafid.Com — Authority: 128
  Imagie; an archiec;t who built a house cc;ording to the pric;iples of design. Also consider providing users various services. Ec;h user has his own impressions of what he wants a house. But because of marketing strae;gies ad; sales promotion for the final product is the thrust on the users. A compue;r is a human ...
  2 weeks ago

• Digital Design Studio (DDS)

  
  arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts - Engage with digital learning and research — Authority: 131
  The Digital Design Studio (DDS) is a postgraduate research and commercial centre of Glasgow School of Art. Its intense learning and research environment exploits the interface between science, technology and the arts to explore imaginative and novel uses of advanced 3D digital visualisation and interaction ...
  3 weeks ago

• Three Dimensions of Emotional Design

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 110
  Emotional Design is both the title of a book by Donald Norman and of the concept it represents. The main issue discussed is that emotions have a crucial role in the human ability to understand the world, and how they learn new things. For example, aesthetically pleasing objects appear to the user to be more ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Gets It Wrong About Service

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  I see that I compared Google to “ that small boy with a hammer who sees everything as a nail ” back in November of 2007, which is when we saw the first signs of Google’s everything-can-be-reduced-to-search philosophy sticking its nose under the health care tent. Less then a year later, Nicholas Carr ...
  4 weeks ago

• Stimulus Fuels Gold Rush For Electronic Health Systems: Huffington Post

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  I heard about this story on Huffington Post from David Kibbe, founding father of the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGwC). Heres a quote that struck my eye: Federal officials wont decide until early next year which types of systems to certify. But some of the worlds largest companies, including General Electric, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ten Steps to Personas

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 110
  Personas are fictional characters created to represent the different user types within a targeted demographic that might use a site or product. Personas are useful in considering the goals, desires, and limitations of the users in order to help to guide decisions about a product, such as features, interactions, and ...
  4 weeks ago

• A little off-topic: Video parody of the Facebook friending ritual, only in real life - (and more serious thoughts about social software apps)

  
  Interactive Multimedia Technology — Authority: 427
  Facebook in Real Life is a short parody of the Facebook "friending" ritual by theBritish comedy sketch group, Idiots of AntsI came across this video featured in a blog post on the Core77... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 weeks ago

• New Hitachi TV Controlled By Gestures (Video)

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 595
  You dont need the remote, just wave your hand! In some households, fighting over the TV remote is a raging nightly battle. In mine it’s more of a cold war detente. Either way, by the end of next year Hitachi (NYSE: HIT ) may take the conflict to a whole new level. Working with Canesta and GestureTek , the ...
  5 weeks ago

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