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Novedades: presentación del nuevo programa de tutoría de UXPA. ¡Se buscan tutores y discípulos!

UXPA

El programa de tutoría de UXPA comenzará a principios de 2013 y su principal misión es brindar servicios a quienes se inician en sus carreras relacionadas con la experiencia de usuario, sean estudiantes o profesionales en búsqueda de trabajo y transiciones laborales. [Leer más]

WUD 2012: la Usabilidad de los Sistemas Financieros

World Usability Day logo

El Día Mundial de la Usabilidad, que se celebró el 8 de noviembre de 2012, se enfocó en la usabilidad de los sistemas financieros: un tema que nos afecta a todos, en todo el mundo. [Leer más]

Dónde Empezar a Trabajar en UX Móvil: Digiriendo el Consejo de los Expertos

Diez sugerencias para los tests de usabilidad móviles, cinco preguntas importantes a tener en cuenta, pautas para el diseño de UX, creación de bocetos móviles, y mucho más en el mundo móvil. [Leer más]

Una Herramienta Emergente: Software de Reconocimiento de Expresiones Faciales

Screen image with a face

Nuevo software puede leer los rostros para detectar emociones básicas cuando alguien utiliza un sitio web, entregando una visión más detallada de la reacción del usuario. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Voice Recognition Technology Aiming Higher

(English) With permanent voice recognition features appearing in popular consumer products, technology is becoming more an auditory and verbal experience than a manual and visual one. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Mommy, Can I Play with Your iPhone?

photo of the Woogie

(English) The Woogie, a stuffed animal into which you can insert your iPhone, helps childproof your phone, however parents must monitor the content their children view. [Leer más]

(English) The New Reality – Coming Soon

(English) The increasing use of handheld devices with cameras, GPS, wireless Internet, and relatively large digital viewing screens has made Augmented Reality technology available to the general public en masse. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Automating Baggage Handling

RampMate automated baggage handling device

(English) Using feedback from ground handling staff, RampMate was created, increasing efficiency and airport baggage tracking capabilities while decreasing handler injury rates. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: No More Goofy Glasses

(English) Three-dimensional (3-D) movies may soon become more mainstream thanks to technologies that are making 3-D viewing more user-friendly. [Leer más]

(English) Superphone to the Rescue!

Phone screens

(English) Cell phones with kid finders and one button emergency calls. Music on a memory stick. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Blio Software: E-reader = Easy to Read?

(English) Blio, designed to make e-books accessible to the visually impaired, allows users to read, or have read to them, e-books on regular computers or handheld devices. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: New Computer Technologies to Be Rolled Out

(English) Flexible, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology is about to revolutionize the world of portable computing, making mobile phones lighter and more durable. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Simplifying Web Design and Management

(English) Platformic is making breakthroughs in web management usability, thanks to its ability to develop CSS without needing a programmer or web design software. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Hey Good Lookin’

(English) The marketing campaign for TriSpecs™ is focused on user experience as the key selling feature, however the website itself is not a great model of usability. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Thoughts as Art

Disculpa, pero esta entrada está disponible sólo en Inglés Estadounidense. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Helping Seniors Helps Everybody

(English) With the aging of the baby boomers, product developers are realizing that there’s money to be made by making products more user-friendly to older people. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Can We Talk? Conversing with Your Car

(English) Cursing the driver who swerved in front of you is one thing, but cursing at your own car is quite another. It may become increasingly common as cars take on an ever-expanding role of keeping those in the driver’s seat driving safely. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Kindling

(English) Review of the Kindle, Amazon's wireless reading device. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Lassoing the Web

(English) A product called Twine, currently in beta testing, aims to help users keep track of online information and make them available for easy retrieval and sharing. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Demonstrating Usability of Medical Records

(English) Medical Records Institute launched EMRCompare, a website that compares electronic medical records programs on usability, costs and functionalities. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: A Bevy of Good Ideas

(English) Mass collaboration in the development process can lead to simple to produce, inexpensive, and user-friendly devices [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Function Fatigue and Feature Frustration

(English) Manufacturers are starting to realize that usability, rather than more features, can be a successful way to differentiate their products. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Wii Usability Woos Non-Gamers

(English) Nintendo broke a usability barrier with its Wii gaming system by creating an interface that could be easily learned by users less experienced with gaming. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Up, Up and Away

(English) Airbus’s new A380 super-jumbo employees volunteered to do “ethnographic” usability testing; the first in-air test with a full-size passenger load on board. [Leer más]

(English) What’s News: Make it Easy

(English) The Arthritis Foundation’s Ease of Use Commendation program seeks to identify products that are easy to use by people with arthritis. [Leer más]