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Herkut 17.2.2008

17. helmikuuta 2008

• ZDNet: How to design a system that everybody hates
  E.g. how not to design a Point of Sale system.
  (tags: usability design-process design user customer)
• New York Times Blog: Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum
  Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective? A group of wise people answer.
  (tags: facebook myspace network networking socialnetworking web society twitter blogging sociology)
• BusinessWeek: Software You Shouldn't Ever Notice
  Aza Raskin's goal is to make communication with the PC so intuitive you'll forget you're using a device.
  (tags: computing Apple HCI ubiquitous UI usability UX PC interaction software)
• BusinessWeek: Portable PCs: A Weighty Evolution
  When the first portable computers came out in the early 1980s, they were portable in name only. But mobile computers have come a long way, baby. Here are some notable laptops produced over the past quarter-century.
  (tags: PC laptop history design evolution computing)
• Mechanical Engineering: A Focus on Use
  How can engineers and industrial designers best work toward innovative design that brings the human into the equation? Focus on the product development process itself.
  (tags: industrial-design engineering design designer development-process HCI)
• Mechanical Engineering: The New Point of View
  When you walk up to a product, the dialogue should be intuitive and obvious. A product's shape, color, and texture should communicate how to turn it on, how to use it, and how to interact with it.
  (tags: design engineering technology user-centered interaction user)
• Technology Review: Maintaining Multiple Personas Online
  Moli, a recently launched social-networking site, allows users to make profiles to represent different aspects of their personality.
  (tags: web2.0 privacy identity socialnetworking Moli)
• uwnews.org: Future of social networking explored in UW's computer science building
  To see what the "Internet of things" future world would be like, a pilot project provides the next step in social networking, wirelessly monitoring people and things in a closed environment.
  (tags: internet network socialnetworking future)

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