For a long time we had to handle interfaces that didn’t seem to be made for humans. Keyboards and other awkward input devices aren’t made for spontaneously interaction. Seemingly engineers had forgotten that we are, after all, living beings who want to touch and move things in a natural way.
Now slowly companies […]
Entries Tagged as 'Usability'
The Power of the Touch
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Consumer Insights, Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interfaces, Life, Usability
Tags:AT&T·consumer·Interaction·iPhone·Microsoft·Orange·Shopping·Surface·touchpoints·WII
Live from the CHI Conference 2008
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, Interfaces, Life, Usability
The CHI - Computer Human Interaction - Conference 2008 will be taking place in Florence, Italy from Saturday, 5th to Thursday, 10th of April.
During CHI 2008 Luca Chittaro will keep an updated blog in English and Italian where he will write about “news, interviews with internationally-known researchers, and the latest trends and discoveries in human-computer […]
Tags:2008·CHI·conference·Florence·Interaction
Article: Video revolution online
March 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Interfaces, Internet TV, Usability
Create or Die Magazine recently came out with a special issue called ‘Video revolution online’. In it you can find some articles about current developments in online video. I contributed an article about Mercedes-Benz.tv. Read more about how we planed and developed that plattform in this PDF (sorry - currently only available in German).
Tags:Article·Mercedes-Benz·Mercedes-Benz.tv
Mobile Touchpoints
March 8th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Experience Design, Interfaces, Life, Mobile, Usability
As the web is increasingly leaving home, it offers completely new chances to reach customers.
For a long time we have looked at the real world and the digital world as two completely different entities. That’s what we express when talking about phenomena as “second life” vs. “real life”. Up till now this might have been […]
Tags:4C·iPhone·mobile web·Starbucks
Feeds for everyone
March 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Information Architecture, Interfaces, Life, Usability
While many of you probably use them frequently, RSS-Feeds haven’t really yet hit the masses. That’s probably because people aren’t used to organizing they’re own content structure. They mainly want it delivered ready to consume. There are customizable start pages like Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle, etc. and they’re very handy if you’ve got the time to […]