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11 Jan 2007 2203H
The Moy Conjecture on user choice and conversion
I’m so excited to declare my first ever user experience conjecture.
In mathematics, a conjecture is an statement that seems likely to be true, but has not been formally proven so (and thereby under the rules of mathematical logic, true in every case, for all time). We don’t have that level of proof in as [...]
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10 Jan 2007 2207H
My take on the Macworld Keynote
Well, by now everyone’s seen, read, or heard about about the two hours of Macworld’s annual Steve Jobs show coverage yesterday, which featured two major products, the expected Apple TV and the iPhone. These yearly events have almost become, for me, the computing world’s equivalent of a Terence Koh gallery show, replete with the artist’s [...]
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09 Jan 2007 0957H
The Macworld Keynote, convergence, irrelevance of BluRay and HD-DVD
And I’m expecting to hear something biggish. Apple’s been quiet for too long. As we blogged about back in September, I think today is the day that we hear something about convergence around Steve’s fantasy digital hub, which my friend Juhn always jokes about. (Bill Gates has been fantasizing about the digital home for decades, [...]
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22 Dec 2006 1843H
Microsoft to begin making amends for XBox 360 tech problems
Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury reports that Microsoft is responding at last to users and bad PR on the XBox 360’s tech problems and so, the warranty’s being extended to one year, retroactively, and the $140 Microsoft was asking for in order to repair their poorly assembled hardware will be reimbursed to us. [...]
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22 Dec 2006 0953H
Information design: less is more, only show more when I need it
It’s funny where you learn lessons about designing information. I was playing GRAW the other night and there’s a sequence when you’re flying above Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City, gunning down soldiers on rooftops trying to bring your bird down. Now when you do this normally, there’s so much detail whizzing by (and you’re being [...]
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01 Dec 2006 0014H
User centered design roundup (and Tivo-bashing)
Yesterday was a bonanza for user-centered design related news. When I cracked open my USA Today this morning, aside from the prescription label story, a judge has ordered the US Treasury to make currency more accessible to the blind. This will likely entail a redesign that should make the size of the bills different [...]
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28 Nov 2006 1942H
Mouth Hanging prize of the week: Microsoft majorly missing a macro multi-channel moment
Hardly news, but, PiperJaffray says that only 8% of the floorwalkers in a survey of 40 retailers recommended the Zune. The iPod increased recommendability 9% over last year, lending credence to the idea that certain things only make sense when you have something else to compare them against. The kicker is, the survey team also [...]
23 Nov 2006 1827H
Video stores shutting doors, XBox Live offers downloadable content
It’s happening on an accelerated scale. At least five Blockbusters up north in the last few years. Is Netflix, the internet to blame? Did Internet kill the Video Star? It was a contributor, along with Best Buy and the other big boxes. I certainly don’t use disc-based media as much as I did five years [...]
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20 Nov 2006 0721H
2007 Game Consoles for Dummies
You have three choices, and you can choose none of the above, or some of the above. There will be a number of gamers who will choose some of the above but not initially.
Sony Playstation 3: lot of hype on the technology. But we’ve seen over the last six generations of game systems, technology does [...]
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13 Nov 2006 2125H
Gizmodo v-blogs the Nintendo Wii setup screen
And it uses their controller like a laser pointer to set language, date, locale options. . . I think this is a case of using technology for technology’s sake though.
But I’m rooting for the Wii, to be honest. Sure there’s not the bloodletting and full on adult action of GRAW or R6 Vegas on [...]
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