User Experience

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: Tombstone Order <!–:–> Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2008, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [greybox]  Sheriff looking at a checklist and cowboys    [/greybox]

<!–:en–>The View from Here: When is Enough Enough? <!–:–>I want to live until I die, and I’ll bet you do, too. But as I get older, I find I’m constantly compromising, and living less of life than I want or […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Platinum Perspectives on Usability and User Experience<!–:–>One of the major shifts of the “naughty oughties” or whatever we should call this millennial decade, is the inevitable increase in the number of senior […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: Technology <!–:–> [greybox]   Man flies in hovercraft with coffee mug on roof.    [/greybox]

Safer Skies: Usability at the Federal Aviation Administration Air traffic control (ATC) provides a classic example of expert users interacting with technology in a complex, high-stakes environment. With thousands […]

Listen Up: Do Voice Recognition Systems Help Drivers Focus on the Road Over the past few years, auto manufacturers have created infotainment systems, integrating control of multiple devices (including cellular phone, […]

Get Your Bearings: User Perspective in Map Design On the morning of November 7, 2007, the container ship Cosco Busan left California’s Oakland harbor for Hong Kong. The fog was so dense that sometimes t […]

Lost in Space: Holistic wayfinding design in public spaces There is a general, yet misleading, notion that poor signage and map design in public spaces is the cause of the difficulty people have navigating […]

A Really Smart Card: How Hong Kong's Octopus Card moves people Many people have experienced problems with public transportation systems: delays, ticket machines that are hard to use, inadequate or complicated […]

Recommendations on Recommendations: Making usability usable Do you sometimes feel like your usability reports aren’t taken seriously? Perhaps part of the problem is that the users of your reports have trouble […]

<!–:en–>The View From Here: Expertly Parked <!–:–> Bicycle Victoria in Australia is a self-funded not-for-profit community organization owned collectively by all 40,000 members. We live and breathe our […]

<!–:en–>What's News: Can We Talk? Conversing with Your Car<!–:–> 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 […]

<!–:en–>Rubes: Anachronism <!–:–> Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2007, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [greybox] […]

<!–:en–>The View from Here: Making Sense of Numbers <!–:–>The British Lord Kelvin once said: “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when y […]

<!–:en–>Rubes: Water Fountain <!–:–> [greybox]”So, what seems to be the problem?” A clown with “Fountain Repair Service” on his jacket is squirted in the face by a water fountain.[/greybox]

<!–:en–>Rubes: Early Market Testing <!–:–> [greybox] cavemen testing hemlock and oleander at a table labeled “Fresh Salad Bar  [/greybox] Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2007, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Usability and Medical Systems <!–:–>This issue of User Experience seeks to drive home the importance of usability, usefulness, and appeal—the full range of user-experience d […]

<!–:en–>Rubes: Waiting Room <!–:–> [greybox] a nurse speaks to a skeleton sitting on a waiting room couch  [/greybox] Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2007, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You <!–:–>This issue’s theme focuses on usability and user-experience issues of interactive and mobile video, informing us about many new technology d […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Usability and Sociability for Mobile and Pervasive Interactive Television <!–:–>Interactive Television (iTV) is slowly replacing the traditional “passive” TV platform due to better audio/video quality and interactive services suc […]