Rob Tannen presents an insightful guide to Ergonomics for Interaction Designers.
This presentation is based on a number of articles found on Rob Tannen’s website: Designing for Humans.

Some inspiring User Experience design from Microsoft… for once.
The most interesting and engaging technology here is demonstrated right at the beginning in the form of an interactive education platform. Unfortunately however, I think the business applications are far more likely to see the light of day, such as the touchscreen business cards and meeting console.

During the Opencast Matterhorn Leadership and Planning Meeting, Allison Bloodworth and Judy Stern of UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services provided an overview of the Business Analysis and User Experience roles and processes. The Matterhorn BA/U Team was proposed as a unified team working together as a cross-project resource to help the Matterhorn team understand & [...]

Prototyping tools can be a huge benefit to design workflow. However, it seems to me that the most common wireframing applications (Visio, OmniGraffle, Axure RP) whilst fine for producing low-fidelity mock-ups, are a barrier when taking the finished design through to production… Honestly, how many web designers, web developers, user experience professionals or otherwise really [...]

If you have to explain to someone what human centered design is and you only have about two minutes: show them this movie from MAYA design.

This article was originally published by Russell Wilson from DEXO Design.
1) What is the best way for user interface design and usability to integrate with software engineering processes, specifically Agile processes?
Design and engineering must work well together if we want design cemented in the overall software development process.  Many perceive design as being oriented towards [...]

A really interesting post over at Web Designer Depot made all reminiscent today… It takes a look at the evolution of operating system interface designs since 1981 – coincidentally the year I was born.
It’s really a very easy read and well worth taking a look over. What surprised me the most is how many features [...]

Today is the the day that I finally pulled my finger out and did some work!
Yes, and I’m ashamed to admit it, but previously I was working with the oh-so-butt-ugly default Wordpress install. Ok, I’m quite sure it has it’s benefits – I just can’t stand it! So, I put my money where my mouth [...]

Phew! That was a hairy landing! I have just returned from the Future of Web Applications event in Dublin and I can be completely honest in revealing that it was excellent. FOWA is an event run by the team over at Carsonified, and credit where it is due, they all did a brilliant job!
Kicking us [...]

Some news… After a fair old chunk of time doing “whatever it is you I do”, I will be leaving the Xerox Technical Research Center based in Welwyn Garden City, UK. It’s been a while in the making but isn’t -thankfully- a result of the current financial crisis. From here on, I’ll be taking on smaller [...]