The Hygiene Factor of Usability
Source: inspireUX, 15 March 2010
Is it true that usability can no longer take us 'beyond lack of dissatisfaction'?
The Business Benefits of building Accessible websites
Source: Econsultancy, 13 March 2010
There’s a good business case for making your website more accessible to the UK’s disabled community.
Internet access is 'a fundamental right'
Source: BBC, 12 March 2010
Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
The Net generation, Unplugged
Source: The Economist, 11 March 2010
Is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of "digital natives" who have grown up with the internet?
Rewriting the Human-Computer interaction Handbook
Source: CIOL, 10 March 2010
Indrani Medhi of Microsoft Research India has developed text-free user interfaces (UIs) to allow any illiterate or semi-literate person on first contact with a computer, to proceed with minimal or no assistance.
Lip reading Mobile promises End to noisy phone calls
Source: BBC, 9 March 2010
A prototype device shown off at CeBIT could allow people to conduct silent phone conversations.
Games User Researchers band together
Source: UN, 8 March 2010
The number of UX professionals in gaming has reached critical mass.
Quince Pro enables privately-held UX Design Libraries
Source: Infragistics, 6 March 2010
Infragistics has launched Quince Pro, a private, secure and organized way to collaborate, communicate and cultivate private UX design libraries to ensure consistent user experiences across teams, departments and companies.
Announcing a new issue of the Journal of Usability Studies
Source: UPA, 5 March 2010
UPA is happy to announce the publication of the second issue of volume 5, the Journal of Usability Studies.
Impatient versus Bored
Source: Gerry McGovern, 4 March 2010
Customers are much more likely to get impatient with your website than they are to be bored with it.