Usability

18 Mar 2008 1945H

A season of usability!

Every season is usability season, we might protest. True, though frankly I can’t find a better way for a budding interactionist to get into the discipline than by providing usability services for open source software. Ellen Reitmayr is running the show: 9 students will get to participate on some very sexy high visibility projects. Check it out. 

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16 Feb 2008 0950H

The end of cart?

Rehashing an old post from last year, but, now, everywhere it can be seen that the walls that form that decade-old convention of shopping cart as a label are crumbling down. Bag, basket — “my gear” even, on one site — it does not really seem to matter to people, so long as there is [...]

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19 Jan 2008 0842H

Astronomy book for the blind

Via NPR the other day, it doesn’t do justice to the book, “Touch the Invisible Sky,” to say it’s merely an astronomy book for the blind, but there are fantastic images used to communicate the world beyond our world, images that the blind can’t obviously see. How then to communicate the majesty of space when [...]

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