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| Usability Labs/Testing Centers DB |
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If you run or work at a usability lab that's not listed, you can submit your lab's details directly to the database.
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| Inspiration from NYTimes.com Interactives |
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By looking at what the NYTimes interactive team has done, we can see examples of what is possible. From their work, we can learn new ways of presenting complex information in
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| Design @ IBM |
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| Design is vital to the success of most products and services. The visual and interaction design of the total user experience directly affects sales, service cost, productive use, customer loyalty, and almost every other aspect of doing business. IBM has had a long history of focusing on the design of our offerings and providing user experience design services to customers. The Design @ IBM site outlines our design principles and guidelines, the user experience design services we provide, the books we've written, and the ways you can contribute to the design of our offerings. This content will grow over time. Check it out and come back often! |
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| Web 2.0 will meet its End in 2008 |
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| While I do not agree that Web 2.0 is doomed in 2008, this is an interesting article. |
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| What Web 2.0 should really be about: the users |
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... And this is where I break with the boosters of Web 2.0. They say that sharing, user-generated content, and tactics like AJAX and tags will usher in a new online utopia. I say that the game hasn't changed since the Internet started: in every context, a tool must either serve the user or be abandoned. The user is what's important, not the technology.
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| The Ties that Find |
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| ... strong ties are unlikely to be bridges between networks, while weak ties are good bridges. Bridges help solve problems, gather information, and import unfamiliar ideas. They help get work done quicker and better. The ideal network for a knowledge worker probably consists of a core of strong ties and a large periphery of weak ones. Because weak ties by definition don’t require a lot of effort to maintain, there’s no reason not to form a lot of them (as long as they don’t come at the expense of strong ties) ... The implication for SNS is obvious: Facebook and its peers should be highly valuable for businesses because they’re tools for increasing the density of weak ties within a company, as well as outside it. My Facebook friends are a large group of people from diverse backgrounds who have very little in common with each other.Furthermore, their profiles give me a decent way to evaluate their expertise. These online friends, in other words, are a large group of bridges to other networks. Facebook already provides me a few good ways to activate these bridges for my own purposes. I anticipate that enterprise social networking software (whatever that turns out to be) will have many more. |
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| A social network for information architects |
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Catalyze is a social network for business analysts, usability professionals, UI designers, information architects, interaction designers, product managers, project managers or anyone else involved in the definition process of software applications.
I have yet to receive a confirmation e-mail after registering on the site, though this could be due to my e-mail server. And it put a Catalze wrapper around MyYahoo! after I tried to add a Catalyze RSS feed to MyYahoo! .... which was very strange (maybe a frames issue?) .. but the site is in beta and has a lot of potential.
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| 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems |
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Barcelona, Spain - 12-16, June 2008.
The purpose of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Five simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Information Systems Applications, including a Human-Computer Interaction track.
Full Paper Submission deadline: November 30, 2007
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| John Muller |
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 John works for IBM on the developerWorks design team. He joined IBM in 1997 and has spent the past 6 years working from home ... even though he is starting to go stir-crazy he still checks is e-mail now and then, so if you have any feedback regarding usablity or design of the developerWorks site, please let him know ... mullerj@us.ibm.com ... or you can use the "Using developerWorks" forum above. John's non-professional interests include soccer, bicycling, kayaking and reading, all while playing with his kids at the same time. Bob Torres  Bob works for IBM, providing user experience and usability services to IBM clients. He is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Customer Experience Strategy and Design Practice. Bob is an IBM Master Inventor and Certified IT Specialist. |
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