I have a couple of Alexa and as everyone says they are great at streaming music, and for simple things such as the flash briefing. However there are now thousands of skills, which on the surface seems like a good thing, and in many ways it is. However to you use a skill you need […]
September 1, 2017
So earlier so I was suggesting that interfaces need to be smarter and better at predicting what I want when, and morphing themselves accordingly. I suggest that time of day is a simple way to consider how this might work. If you look at the graph below you can see that Facebook has peaks at […]
September 1, 2017
I’ve been thinking about the use of AI in apps and web sites. Currently there is a lot of effort going into the data science aspects, using AI to make sense, at a human scale, of the huge volumes of data. Separately there is a strong movement towards conversational interfaces where the AI is processing […]
March 21, 2014
[eds note: This post is too long, so here it is in 15 words: Digital Natives and Immigrants are very different in how they use mobiles so design accordingly.] In the previous entry on this subject we looked at how mobiles are changing the way we think. In summary: We are ever more reliant on external memory, provided by […]
February 4, 2014
I read this on the Verge and I though about how for the last 10 years the mobile phone UX people have been trying to solve this conundrum. So it would seem that the world is waking up to the fact that the home screen on a phone does not need to be static.I’ll not […]
January 3, 2013
This is a great article on making the interface for a tablet website as finger friendly as possible. In short your average finger is 45 to 57 pixels wide, so make link targets large enough, and separated with enough margin to avoid over crowding or multiple selection. make the text large enough to read ! (and I am not […]
October 31, 2012
D3 User Mental Model &Framework This session is about getting the right design for your users. We will define the steps and building blocks needed for the user and system to complete the core tasks in the real world. Learn how to use Mind maps, Task breakdown flow, IA blocks, Priya Prakash, Manuela Zavattaro 2/10, 6.30pm (Tues) The […]
September 5, 2017
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