Towards the end of watching a terrible Bill Buxton prestation video on youtube, I heard him mention this book. As the completely impressionable person that I am, I immediately went to Amazon.com and bought it. It is well worth the money and time. The book is short. If you wanted, you could read it in [...]
What? You didn’t get the memo? Apparently, it was interface day on the web last weekend. There were three large announcements of different gestural interface concepts this weekend. I have to say, I like Microsoft’s, “Computer, make me a sandwich” approach the best. Check them all out! Sony and Atracsys 3D Interface (via Engadget) Wearable [...]
I came across this video while reading a question on the UXExchange. If you’ve never done usability testing for your product, I highly recommend watching it. This is a model example of “think out loud” usability testing of the Wizzgo website. The goal in usability testing, if you’re not familiar with it, is to have [...]
Saw this one engadget this morning. You can read the original news article here. Most “geeks” are seeing this game as an epic fail, but I think it’s kind of inventive. All jokes aside, it’s kind of an interesting user experience their creating. Where before you had an inanimate doll, you know have a full [...]
Here’s a new study that’s being worked on, the idea of using muscle gestures to interface with computers. This is clearly a case of research driving plausibility. But, I like the fact that they’re using use case scenarios to display functionality. Just think, in a few years, this could all be sewn right into a [...]
A while back I finished Steve Mulder’s book, The User Is Always Right, a practical guide to creating and using personas for the web. After finishing it, it kind of sat around for a few weeks, but has recently become part of my right hand. The chapters on qualitative and quantitative data gathering have been [...]
Some students at Carnagie Mellon University are creating a Dungeon’s & Dragons game using Microsoft Surface as a school project. You can watch the video above. I got really excited at the beginning of the video, because they were allowing real character statuettes to interface with a map. Later in the video, they seem to [...]
I came across this new hand held remote interface for computer based TVs this morning on engadget. It’s called GlideTV Navigator, and looks like it’s designed to be an aesthetically pleasing remote you’d want to leave on your coffee table. Unfortunately, it looks like the aesthetics stopped with the industrial design of the device, because [...]
10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo. Here’s a new interface being designed by 10/GUI that is trying to rethink multi-touch interaction with a computer. I would agree that there needs to be a fundamental change in the way that we perceive the desktop space. I’m not sure I like this new approach. I’d be interested [...]
A little while ago I posted a video I found about CRYSTAL, well here’s a new one of the debut of Microsoft’s Courier Tablet. Again, awesome concept. Notice the delivery. They’re using a personable story we can all identify with, and using the person’s goals to show off potential features. It’s obvious Microsoft is embracing [...]
Brenton Klik is an Interaction Designer in the Washington DC area. He designs interfaces and experiences for web, mobile, and desktop platforms.
Over the years, Brenton has worked for Carrier Corporation, SAP America, and others to create rich instructional applications, project management solutions, and web based applications. Recently, he has perused interactions in the mobile space, such as data entry and communication tools.
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