Archive for April, 2008
Hjælp fra bitte små mænd
Monday, April 28th, 2008Journey to the Center of Design – with sound
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Just a quick note to tell you that there’s now a soundtrack on Jared Spool’s keynote Journey to the Center of Design from this year’s IAsummit.
But why not post it again, then, you ask. Good point.
Hvis du kan blive misforstået, bliver du det
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Selvom faktorerne er små, men mange, er det samspillet, der kan blive katastrofalt.
Andre udvalgte love fra den finske forsker Wiio
- Kommunikation fejler som regel, undtaget ved et uheld
- Hvis et budskab kan fortolkes på forskellige måder, vil det blive fortolket på den værst tænkelige måde.
- Der er altid nogen der bedre end dig ved hvad du mener
- Jo mere kommunikation, des flere misforståelser
- Jo mere kommunikation, des hurtigere misforståelser
- Det vigtige er ikke hvordan det er, men hvad det ligner
- Hvis du ikke får negativ feedback, er budskabet ikke sluppet igennem
My new blog on social user experience
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

For your inspiration: I’ll be posting screenshots, photos, links and stories about social user experience to ux.mortenjust.com.
It’s
- my del.icio.us links about it
- my flickr photos about it
- posts on genstart.dk about it
- my flickr screenshots stream
… all collected into one blog, one feed and a comment thread on all entries.
The last one on the list could be interesting in some time from now. It will also serve as a ux pattern library, organised by tags like frontpage, gettingstarted, and openid. I’d appreciate any help tagging or opening photo pools to get this thing going even faster. Skitch invites included.
Jeg er i nyhederne
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008![]()
Eller, det er vi.
Læs hvad der ellers blev sagt om den sag i den to-sider lange Computerworld-artikel.
Techcrunch (to gange) og en række andre medier har også haft fat i nyheden. Jeg samler op senere i aften.
MobileHCI 2008
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008![]()
Interesting submissions would be
- Rangoli: A Visual Phonebook for Low-literate Users
- Context Awareness and Perceived Interactivity in Multimedia Computing
- Touch & Interact: Touch-based Interaction of Mobile Phones with Displays
- Making a completely icon-based menu in mobile devices to become true: A user-centered design approach for its development
- Projector Phone: A Study of Using Mobile Phones with Integrated Projector for Interaction with Maps
- Map, diagram, and web page navigation on mobile devices: the effectiveness of Zoomable User Interfaces with Overviews
- Always-on Information – Services and Applications on the Mobile Desktop
- Lessons from Early Stages Design of Mobile Applications
- Mobile Multimedia: Identifying User Goals using Means-End Theory
Listening to the user was never a reason for success
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008The 37signals vs. Don Norman death match lives on. Jared Spool gave this keynote at IAsummit 08 recently. Here’s a more detailed write-up.
Has anyone found the audio for this talk?
Se den du taler med, men ikke ansigtet
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Både Callgate (ikke tandpasta) og Dialplus bruger mobilens skærm til at vise information om personen i den anden ende af telefonlinjen.

Callgate er koreansk, og Dialplus virker kun på Windows Mobile.
Læg mærke til at man kan reservere bord, finde deres telefonnummer og sende mails til dem – mens man snakker.
Måske kunne det bruges lidt mere i kontekst. Man kunne forestille sig en kø-status der kunne ligge på bordet, med mulighed for selvbetjening.

Optagebånd
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Jeg samler på skærmbilleder
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Hvis der er nogen der har lyst til at lave en flickr pool, så bare sig til.
Fwd: Simplicity and features
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008It all started with Norman stating that simplicity is highly overrated (“To sell, you need features”)
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html
Then came the Wired article with 37 signals (“Yes, we’re arrogant and Norman is dead wrong”)
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_signals#
Then Don Norman’s reaction
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/why_is_37signals_so_1.html
Then 37signal’s reply
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/904-why-we-disagree-with-don-norman
It seems as though 37 sees a feature as something with an end goal. Norman sees design as a feature, too. So in theory, not having a feature is a feature. Obviously, I agree.
Tysk Bluetooth-dating og en smilende kvinde
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Du møder en fremmed, I snakker, du finder personen på telefonen bagefter, og så snakker I. Det lyder som Imity, men aki-aki er tysk, og nu også, efter to års tid, i luften.
Det forfriskende er at det grafiske udtryk er interessant og ikke særlig typisk, endda helt ud på telefonen. Det lumre er at deres vinkel er dating.

Damen i filmen har netop mødt sin date. Det er derfor man kan se hun smiler.
Er der nogen med tysk-kunnen og java-kompabilitet der har prøvet?



