In Don Norman's classic "The Psychology of Everyday Things", he rants a lot about doors. Why should doors need instruction manuals - referring to "Push" & "Pull" signs. The design should ensure that anyone can open a door. No excuses. I've wondered for a long time why interior car door handles ...
A couple of our patents were referenced by two new grants today to Verizon and BellSouth. Verizon's Device Independant Caller ID describes the ability to route caller ID from The PSTN to alternative networks such as internet or SMS (For example a user could choose to be alerted of a call by email or ...
We all know that contextual UIs are good. The user only sees what's relevant to the task at hand. With touch screens on mobile handsets, some designers think that this is UI nirvana - except what you gain in context simplicity, you lose in tactile feedback. Physical buttons are good too. ...
Eric Skiff brings us cool dorky Bots dancing with babes at SXSW. Good thing the festival is not held in Boston, the cops would take it down!!! [tags]SXSW, robots[/tags]
Matt Roberts wrote a must-read post about the confusion about cell-phone use in hospitals. According to the Mayo Clinic, phone use in most areas of a hosptital poses no danger. Next, let's convince those airlines! [tags]cell-phones, Matt-Roberts, hospitals[/tags]
Part three in my unofficial BUZZ series! Chris Anderson has been writing about the future of video games for the past month: its future is based on complementary hardware design for controllers - the Wii controller, the air guitar, and the BIG RED BUTTON. The BRB is pretty cool - surprisingly a Sony product marketed out ...
An email claiming magical hidden cell phone functionality has been going around for the past month. Even my parents sent it to me. The claims are mostly urban legends though. What struck me about the functions is the horrible user experience!! Can't we have decent UIs on these fake urban myth features... Some of the top ...
From Yahoo/O'Reilly's Tech Buzz Game, come the wikis with the most buzz. Here are the top 9 "traders". The top wiki, Wikipedia's MediaWiki has a virtual market cap at $2420520.70. Too bad that virtual money won't buy you virtual hamburgers on Second Life! 1. MediaWiki 2. TWiki 3. PBWiki 4. JotSpot 5. MoinMoin 6. SnipSnap 7. Social Text 8. JSPWiki 9. TiddlyWiki [tags]wiki, BUZZ, Tech-Buzz-Game, ...
Here in Kanata (Canada) there's a renewed (but tentative) BUZZ in the tech sector. Many startups are growing, despite a few shrinking. The bigger players are hanging in - Alcatel, Mitel, Nortel, Cognos.... Research in Motion's announcement that it will greatly expand its Kanata campus adds another significant "anchor" to the tech ...
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