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Rewriting the Human-Computer interaction Handbook
Mar 09, 2010 - On March 8, as the world celebrates International Women's Day, all eyes were on 31-year old Indrani Medhi when she stepped up to the podium at Emtech 2010 to receive her honour as a technological trendsetter. Medhi, an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research India, is the only woman in the [...]

The Craft of Interaction Design
Mar 09, 2010 - "I've been involved in developing what I would say is the craft of interaction design. A craft is a way of working?that you develop entirely through experience without thinking?about rationalizing it or systematizing it. And I believe that craft is essential to interaction design, and always will [...]

Preventing issues on web forms
Mar 09, 2010 - This post is a follow-up to to my previous post on validating web forms. In that post I gave you tips on helping users recover from validation problems. In this post I give you tips on avoiding the problems in the first place. You can write a whole book on this subject (and many have) [...]

Web Standards for E-books
Mar 09, 2010 - E-books aren't going to replace books. E-books are books, merely with a different form. More and more often, that form is ePub, a format powered by standard XHTML. As such, ePub can benefit from our nearly ten years' experience building standards-compliant websites. That's great news for publishers [...]

Closeness of Actions and Objects in GUI Design
Mar 09, 2010 - "Users overlook features if the GUI elements — such as buttons and checkboxes — are too far away from the objects they act on." (Jakob Nielsen - Alertbox)

Links for 2010-03-08 [Digg]
Mar 09, 2010 - Legal Guardians Neglect, Abuse and Threaten Elderly Patients What would you do if you loved one was legally left to die? True story of healthcare in America.

Ethnography informs text-free UI for illiterate people
Mar 08, 2010 - Indrani Medhi, an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research India where she works in the Technology for Emerging Markets team, designed a text free user interface for illiterate populations. “A student of design, Medhi has developed text-free user interfaces (UIs) to allow any illiterate or [...]

Do's and Don'ts of Usability Testing
Mar 08, 2010 - "Usability testing is one of the least glamorous, but most important aspects of user experience research. Over the years, it has also been one of the forms of user research we have performed most frequently. In doing so, we've learned quite a few best practices and encountered some potential [...]

Games User Researchers band together
Mar 07, 2010 - GUR-SIG is the worlds first group dedicated to supporting the needs of games user researchers. Its members include researchers from the major platform holders, large publishers, smaller developers, consultancies and individual researchers. PlayableGames' manager, Ben Weedon, will be speaking at [...]

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 28-Mar 6, 2010
Mar 06, 2010 - Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here's a quick and useful compilation of the [...]