Eilen DfA-tiistaissa Enter ry:n Maisa Krokfors esitti tämän riemastuttavan videon, joka muistuttaa hyvin, ettei ikäihmistä kannata ylenkatsoa tietokonekaupassakaan.
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"Now it's true that, unlike translations, many of the guidelines aimed at one group don't get in the way of other users. But what would we do if we designed pages just for one group of users. GMail and other sites have taken vague steps in this direction. At a very brief glance I can see Standard, Standard+Chat, Basic HTML and Mobile versions. What would GMail for screen readers look like?"
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"Let's have a 'This doesn't work!' button in as much software as possible, labelled in large, friendly letters and placed where the user can always see it through the tears and red mist. When the user presses it, the software sends back a trace of what parts of the user interface had been involved up to that point. And that's it."
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In design, methods may come in handy – but only if you know what you are doing.
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This is the most understandable pie chart ever.
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"Today even our cellphones have more computing power and graphics capability than those first Palms. In part, I think the relative lack of constraints on our cellphone designers have led them to become sloppy with their design choices, leading to products that are harder, less efficient, and more confusing to use. The designers are not doing their editorial duties. How many clicks, for example, does it take to edit an address book entry on your cellphone?"
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The future is in Web services that do not require users to change their behavior by, say, adopting a new service or transferring all their friends’ contacts from one service to another.
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"Since late 2005, we have consciously begun steering ALA back to its earliest roots as a magazine for all people who make websites – writers, architects, strategists, researchers, and yes, even marketers and clients as well as designers and developers. This means that, along with issues that focus on new methods and subtleties of markup and layout, we will also publish issues that discuss practical and sometimes theoretical aspects of user experience design, from the implications of ubiquitous computing to keeping communities civil."
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This article presents a wide variety of mistakes, misconceptions, over-indulgences, intricacies, and generally silly aspects of modern accessibility. While most accessibility issues are due to lack of knowledge, sometimes the most egregious errors are made by well-meaning developers who simply misunderstand the concepts or take their limited understanding of accessibility to an extreme level – thus web accessibility gone wild.
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An IDEO based blog about design thinking.
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Obviously the folks on Facebook now state that the whole thing was meant for real-life contacts only. Oh come on, what year is it again?!
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This year World Usability Day takes place 13.11.2008, and the theme is transportation.
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Tim Berners-Lee has announced The World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks to advance One Web that is free and open, to expand the Web's capability and robustness, and to extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet. The Web Foundation brings together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, government, NGOs, and experts in many fields to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale.
Tosin päivän herkuista herkuin on kuitenkin täällä.
Teknologisessa mielessä syyskuu ei näytä kovinkaan lupaavalta.
Viimeisten päivitysten jälkeen läppärissäni oleva Vista-merkkinen käyttöjärjestelmä on alkanut takuta. Kone ei meinaa käynnistyä välillä ollenkaan. Usein vasta kolmas tai neljäs buutti saa sen toimimaan. En pääse edes käynnistysvaiheessa tarjolla olevaan korjaustilaan. Pelottaa, milloin kone ei käynnisty enää ollenkaan.
Tästä kauhistuneena muistin ulkoisen kovalevyni olemassaolon. Sitä en sitten tiennytkään, ettei se ole Vista-yhteensopiva, ei edes kaikkien mahdollisten päivityspakettien jälkeen. Mahtavaa. Hyvänä hetkenä pystyn näkemään sen sisällön, mutta automaattista varmuuskopiota sillä ei pysty enää tekemään.
Työpaikan vaihtumisen myötä myös puhelin vaihtui Nokian N95:sta E66:een. Too bad. Vaikka E66 etenkin valkoisena onkin soma ja tyttömäinen, ja siinä on mm. mainio GPS, kaipaan N95:sta niin, että mietin jo, että ostaisin sellaisen. Vähiten kaipuuta ei aiheuta se, että E66:n kamera on niin kehno, etten ole onnistunut ottamaan sillä vielä yhtään kuvaa, jonka tohtisi julkisesti missään näyttää; eihän niitä tohdi edes itse katsoa. En ihan heti keksi mitä sellaista tarvitsemaani E66:ssa on, mitä N95:ssa ei. Nyyh.
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