Archive for the ‘Usability’ Category
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
I always find these security talks entertaining.
In his talk, Searching for Evil, Professor Ross Anderson discusses research done by himself, Dr. Richard Clayton, Tyler Moore, Steven Murdoch, and Shishir Nagaraja.
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1380463341028815296[/googlevideo]
Related links:
Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems by Ross J. Anderson - book on Amazon
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
In his talk, Dasher: information-efficient text entry, David MacKay introduces a unique human input mechanism, Dasher. I've used Dasher and quite like it.
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5078334075080674416[/googlevideo]
There's a Java applet version of Dasher, but I encourage you to try a native version.
Contributions to Dasher have been made by David MacKay, David Ward, Alan Blackwell, ...
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
Google found that when pages took only half a second longer to appear, usage of their site dropped 25%. In her talk, Scaling Google for Every User at the Seattle Conference on Scalability, Marissa Mayer communicated these results. The explanation of the statistic starts around 9 minutes into the video ...
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Saturday, April 1st, 2006
You have to re-enter the store if you've been idle.
That's bad.
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
Many Integrated Development Environments do this. Stickies on Mac does this. Email clients retain sort preferences. Why not save sort preferences in a web application? Why doesn’t my Instant Messaging client bring up the conversation windows I didn’t explicitly close? My DVD player asks me if I want to continue ...
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