Review: The Wittiest New Addition to Usability?

About a month ago, Kevin Cheng wrote: Welcome to the first issue of OK/Cancel!... I decided a few months ago that I was going to do a comic strip, and one on a subject I was intimately familiar with, but it quickly dawned on me that I don't actually know much of anything. Nevertheless, interface design and usability are areas I thought I at least could tackle. Bad interfaces was something we all laughed at already so what better subject to write about? The industry gives us new inspiration every day!'

Updated on Fridays and now boasting enough material to be reviewed, OK/Cancel is a mix of tongue-in-cheek comment on the industry (and the tribulations of being misunderstood), useful advice in manageable chunks, and interaction between Kevin, his collaborator Tom Chi and a growing bastion of readers.

Me? I particularly like the subtitle: 'Interface your fears'.

If you haven't yet seen it, follow the link below now - the latest strip should be up.

Associated Link: OK/Cancel

User Interviews - Analysis Simplified
Source: Webcredible, 6 January 2009
 
You’ve conducted your user interviews, but now you need to make sense of all that information you’ve gathered.

Why Products Fail
Source: ComputerWorld, 5 January 2009
 
Most gadget and software makers don't understand what users want most: control.

How to Design Websites for Mobile Phones
Source: stemkoski.com, 3 January 2009
 
Tips from Ryan Stemkoski's web design blog.

Pioneer of Cyberspace honoured
Source: BBC, 2 January 2009
 
A professor who invented a forerunner of the world wide web has been made a dame in the New Year Honours.

2008 in Review: Developments that rocked the world of User Experience
Source: Catalyst Resources, 1 January 2009
 
A look back at 2008 highlights some of the key developments that rocked the world of user experience.

2008: The Year Online
Source: MIT Technology Review, 31 December 2008
 
The business of social networking, cloud computing, and a flaw in the fabric of the Internet top the most notable stories of 2008.

Shoveling through the Spamalanche
Source: UN, 30 December 2008
 
A ‘Spamalanche’ of 3,000 emails will be waiting in your inbox by the time you get back to work. What can you do besides 'delete all'?

New guidelines boost Web Access
Source: BBC, 29 December 2008
 
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced a new standard to make sites more accessible to older and disabled people.

Measuring Emotional Engagement
Source: UN, 27 December 2008
 
New applications of electroencephalography (EEG) provide the means to gather detailed information on a user’s emotional relationship with a brand or service.

UXalliance thrives on Research strengths
Source: UN, 24 December 2008
 
The UXalliance provides clients with access to over 220 user experience professionals and 40 test labs worldwide.