Microsoft Surface is a pretty amazing piece of research: tabletop touchscreen computing done really well. But, the “origins” section on the Surface website strongly implies that the whole concept of tabletop computing originated from Microsoft. It didn’t. If you find … Continue reading
Google’s new “website optimiser” is one of the biggest and most exciting user research tools to emerge on the scene in quite some time. It’s a bit surprising, then, that hardly anyone in the User Centred Design field is talking … Continue reading
I’ve been having a lot of fun doing out of box experience design consultancy over the last few weeks (OOBE as it is pretentiously called by those in the know). If you’ve ever opened an Apple product then you’ll know … Continue reading
This is Luis von Ahn giving a Google TechTalk presentation about “human computation”. He talks about Capatchas and the ESP game among other things. He’s particularly qualified to talk about them because he basically invented them. Really interesting stuff. It’s … Continue reading
You’ll see on the right hand side we’ve added a link to our feed. Why not subscribe to it? Our posts can be a bit sporadic so the feed is probably the best way to read this site… You can … Continue reading
Think back to your first ever home inkjet printer. Mine was an Apple stylewriter in 1993. Look at home printers today. They still look pretty much the same – they haven’t moved on much. Why not? We’ve been having the … Continue reading
We’ve all had hardware like this in our home: designed to be an ornament yet attractive to nobody, and a waster of good surface space. You can imagine how the designers pictured it – the user placing the device on … Continue reading