Media: OK/Cancel do their Stuff on CHI2004

You'll have been following OK/Cancel because I told you to last October (see The Wittiest New Addition to Usability?). If you've let that slide, now's a good time to go back and have another look...

Kevin and Tom were at CHI last month and their particular brand of commentary - cartoons and thought pieces - makes a great addition to the analysis coming out of the three days of multiple tracks that made up the conference.

There have been two strips drawn from the conference so far - an examination of the theme 'Connect' and a discussion of what experiences can be designed for, following keynote Tim Brown of IDEO's assertions that he is engaged in 'lifestyle design'. You'll get a straighter account of it here soon, but in the meantime, enjoy their irreverence. Beneath the humour of the strips is a lot of sensible thinking.

What you will have missed if you weren't at the event, is their 'guru' trading cards that double as their calling cards. There's a set of eight in all to trade and collect. I left holding "The Don" Norman and LLSpoolJ. Will trade a spare Norman for any other guru...

Associated Link: OK/Cancel: Getting a Life

Site Visit Interviews: from Good to Great
Source: User Focus, 29 August 2008
 
For those of you for whom the Basic Introduction to User Interviews wasn't quite enough.

Six Metrics for Managing UI Design
Source: Russell Wilson, 28 August 2008
 
A proposal of six metrics to be used for managing a user interface design department.

Don't Judge a Form by its Cover
Source: Formulate Information Design, 27 August 2008
 
The saying "don't judge a book by its cover" reminds us that looks are deceptive. It turns out that this idiom applies to forms too.

Beijing Olympics - special State of the eNation report
Source: www.abilitynet.org.uk, 26 August 2008
 
In this special report AbilityNet asked disabled users to try out the Beijing Olympics website in our interaction lab.

It's Who You Know (Or Don't)
Source: Stanford Magazine, 23 August 2008
 
Online social networks are powerful and ineffectual all at once.

Winning Considerations for Interactive Content
Source: UXMatters, 22 August 2008
 
Rich options for interactively presenting content also come with a challenge.

Microsoft sees end of Windows era
Source: BBC, 20 August 2008
 
Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows.

News you can Use
Source: Gerry McGovern, 18 August 2008
 
When the homepage is dominated by news you are not necessarily communicating more.

Feeling Through your Computer
Source: Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science, 16 August 2008
 
A newly designed device lets computer users feel the texture and movement of what they are seeing in front of them.

User interviews - A basic Introduction
Source: Webcredible, 15 August 2008
 
It's surprising how few people have a real understanding of who's using their site.