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Quote reblogged from Giant Robot LasersCreativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.
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With storytelling, a diverse team creating a website or application can collectively link together the tangible elements and create something that is a meaningful experience and is more than just bits and bytes.
Source: http://nadinetoukan.posterous.com/better-user-experience-with-storytelling-8
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..a universally-applicable set of experience design principles that we should all strive to follow, and will explore how you can create and use your own guiding principles to take your site or product to the next level.
Fantastic deck!
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Link reblogged from No, that's ergonomically incorrect.
If you are interested in HCI on mobile, this is kind of article you should read.
Their study was focusing following questions:
- Which text entry method provides the fastest and most accurate text entry?
- Which text entry method receives the highest satisfaction and ease of use ratings?
- How do first-time experiences compare across text entry methods?
- What aspects of text entry user interfaces do smartphone users particularly like or dislike?
- What can be done to make text entry more accurate and less aggravating?
One of their finding was that user’s preference and performance are strongly affected by their expertise on specific method, and all methods requires some time for training to get used to it. My recent study on input devices is reaching similar conclusion too. All of my participants did better on their preferred input method (Mouse or Trackpad, or these input device with Multi-touch gesture), and their preference also went on their familiar input method.
Therefore, to determine what’s better, further question might be
“What kind of method can be minimize user’s amount of learning effort to reach certain expertise level?”
Human Factors study is still on going today!
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If browse has been the pervasive mode of interaction since the GUI was invented in 1984, Big Data is ensuring that search will be the prevailing mode of tomorrow.
