Category: UCD

• 17 February 2009

  Linked Data making the web human centric

  The lovable Mr Stephen Fry recently noted [iTunes link] that the challenge isn’t to help people become “computer literate” instead it is to make computers “human literate”. And when you think of the last 25 years, as an industry, we’ve done a pretty good job.  1984 saw Apple launch the Macintosh and with it the world was introduced to the…
• 7 March 2008

  links for 2008-03-07

  Tom Coate’s presentation at ETech explaining the thinking behind Fire Eagle and how it works 1. Make services extend to wherever the network goes. 2. Services should work well with others. 3. De-couple the creation and use of data. (tags: geolocation api fireeagle webofdata) I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users [coding horror] Don’t…
• 20 February 2008

  links for 2008-02-20

  First Rule of Usability? Don’t Listen to Users [useit.com] An old but hugly relevant article from Neilsen. To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior. (tags: accessibility design usability) Duty Calls [xkcd] Oh dear this feels a…