User Experience

<!–:en–>What's News: Function Fatigue and Feature Frustration <!–:–>As cell phone manufacturers increase the functions that can be performed by cell phones, keeping the user experience simple becomes an ever-increasing […]

<!–:en–>Time to Get Moving! <!–:–>I’m excited and grateful for the opportunity to share the work of UPA’s Usability in the Enterprise project with the broader usability community. This […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Making Ourselves Usable, Useful, and Appealing <!–:–>We know that our profession is concerned with making products and services more usable, useful, and appealing so that end-users have a better user […]

<!–:en–>View from Here: A Recipe for Usability <!–:–> On my way to the office on World Usability Day 2006, I was listening to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio program Sounds Like Canada, where […]

<!–:en–>What’s News: Wii Usability Woos Non-Gamers <!–:–>Nintendo broke a usability barrier with the release of its Wii gaming system. It is so easy to use that even […]

<!–:en–>Book Review: It’s Show Time! <!–:–> Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data Stephen Few O’Reilly Press, 2006 Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables a […]

<!–:en–>Rubes: Dog Vacation <!–:–> [greybox] two dogs looking at a photo album while drinking coffee   [/greybox] Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2007, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist

<!–:en–>What’s News: Up, Up and Away <!–:–>It took some courage, merely days after a test flight of Airbus’s new A380 super-jumbo jet was aborted mid-flight due to faulty landing gear controls, b […]

<!–:en–>Book Review: What We Find Changes Who We Become <!–:–> Ambient Findability By Peter Morville O’Reilly, 2005 Ambient Findability is the second book written by Peter Morville. His first, Information A […]

<!–:en–>With Access for Many, a New Way to Govern <!–:–>Could the founders of the United States of America have envisioned what the Internet, telecommunications, and the PC enable in terms of government […]

<!–:en–>What's News: Make it Easy<!–:–>In a case of “doing well by doing good,” the Arthritis Foundation’s Ease-of-Use Commendation program rewards companies for developing products that […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Sonification: Its Time Has Arrived <!–:–>This issue focuses on sonification. Some usability and user-experience professionals in medicine, health, music, video, the military, and other realms […]