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• PDXUX Meeting Tonight - Silverlight 1.0 Uses

  Tonight the PDXUX.NET group will be meeting. I will be presenting and will briefly be discussing some examples of how major players are already adopting and using Silverlight 1.0. I will also be walking through an example of how I tried to stretch the Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:55 PM by kelly | 3 Comments Filed under: Usability/User Experience, Portland User Groups, PDXUX.Net

• Just like Minority Report

  Andrew pointed me to a video about a presentation given by Jeff Han where he presents a new interface that is just like what Tom Cruise uses on Minority Report . Pretty cool, eh? Read More... Posted Monday, December 18, 2006 11:42 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability/User Experience, Technology - Hardware

• Who's paying for this again?

  Here's an interesting write-up . In a nutshell, ease-of-use should not neuter the software. Sure, I agree with that. I agree 100%, which is why I'm going to write about a slightly related topic, what do you do when usability isn't budgeted Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:28 AM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability/User Experience, Software Development

• The impact of great usability

  Kathy Sierra talks about this in her Good usability is like "water flowing downhill" post. If you haven't read it, read it! She highlights a quote about usability that is dead on in my opinion. "If I KMFU (Know My F*ing Users) they Read More... Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 1:21 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability/User Experience, Software Development

• Usability...for Programmers

  Joel on Software, this guy gets it right! Macs are not usable ! In a few recent discussions with my peers about usability, a lot is said about how the system doesn't work the way they expect it to. I can appreciate that, the system wasn't designed Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:11 PM by kelly | 0 Comments Filed under: Usability/User Experience, Software Development