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Usability specialists take note: Japan is in dire need of an easy-to-use phone with features they are accustomed to (mobile TV, credit card payment, GPS). It’s an interesting problem, since cellphones are radically different between the US and Japan. Japan is on the cutting edge, and mobile phones in the US are relatively outdated before [...]
I was hoping it wouldn’t come to this, but a bill banning texting while driving is moving on to the state Senate in my home state of Massachusetts. From the Mooninite controversy to the Big Dig, Massachusetts doesn’t have a very good reputation.
Bills seem to created and escalated because of a tragic accident. In this [...]
From the Human Factors archives comes a very interesting video of early research conducted on Route 128. With all of my trips between Bentley College and Cape Cod over the past couple years, I used this stretch of road quite a bit. Fortunately, I didn’t have a helmet obstructing my view every couple seconds.
This early [...]
The Mozilla Foundation is to browsers what Apple is to computers. Mozilla has learned how to question existing paradigms and improve upon existing designs. I’ll admit that I thought Firefox 2 was nearly perfect from a UI perspective (from a performance perspective, not so much).
Here are a few examples on how Firefox 3 continues to [...]
The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) held its first annual conference last month at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). While I did not attend, I’ve been watching some of the talks from the conference via Perpetual Productions on Brightcove. One of the most inspiring talks at the conference was by Alan Cooper (author [...]
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