SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

i guess Microsoft has given up on the youth demographic who prefer Mac and Ubuntu… Young twerps!
Taking its cue from Readers Digest’s Big Print Edition, the Ballmer Corp decided that an “old person’s OS” was its future. this was announced last week at the Digital Inclusion conference in London.
The PC will come [...]

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To state the obvious: Packaging is a big part of the product experience! Help Remediespresents us with this unique design for medical supplies…
Now I’m wondering where this could go next…

mmm. it’s still a little sketchy, but it’s starting to make sense!
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In today’s paper was an insert ad for Future Shop (aka Best Buy)… lots of Compaq, HP, and Acer computers on sale… not a bad thing. But the WEIRD thing was… no mention of operating systems… no mention of Vista… Home Vista… Deluxe Vista… in fact the entire 16 page insert didn’t [...]

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There’s a lot of blogs written by anonymous insiders. These folks have direct or indirect access to secret product info… Apple had ThinkSecret… Research In Motion has Boy Genius… What about Microsoft? Doesn’t anyone even care what they’re cooking? Well here ShippingSeven - supposedly written by a coder who’s [...]

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Warning dialogs - we love them. But then, what’s the use of warning about invisible cows??? I mean - They’re INVISIBLE!! Not much we can do about it, don’t ya think?
On the other hand, Vista gives us lots of choices when warning about an over-write… Ok… you’ve convinced me Microsoft, “Do [...]

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Yo iWeannies! Get on the program here… Vista rocks! And now, Dell knows it too and they’re pimpin’ out some badass products! No, NOT bad products! NOT assinine products! BadAss products! And not to be outdone by Dell, HP has announced it’s SKANKY laptop line, just in time [...]

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I’m glad to report that Microsoft hasn’t lost its mojo in writing useless error messages!

via The User Interface Asylum
Tags: Vista, error
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Since he called me on it… Matt Roberts points us to the awesome industrial design of Lenovo’s Torch for the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
While I was on the Lenovo main page I noticed something odd: their list of hot support topics. Top three: Battery Recall, Windows Vista, Drivers. Exploding batteries - problem! Missing drivers - [...]

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If you’ve been holding off upgrading to Vista because you’re worried about losing your favorite existing features - such as the popular “blue screen of death” - don’t panic! Vista now provides a fresh modern light blue screen of death. As an added bonus, you’ll get to play the “validation worked the last time” game. [...]

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