or Exactly Why Apple Keeps Doing Foolish Things Apple keeps doing things in the Mac OS that leave the user-experience (UX) community scratching its collective head, things like hiding the scroll bars and placing invisible controls inside the content region of windows on computers. Apple’s mobile devices are even worse: It can take users upwards […]
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The Third User
By Bruce Tognazzini on 6 Mar 2013 in Apple, HCI Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability Testing, User Experience
The Apple Watch, Tog’s Feb 2013 Prediction
By Bruce Tognazzini on 6 Feb 2013 in Apple, HCI Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Wearable computing
Two years plus before the release of the Apple Watch, I set out my expectations of its capabilities and features. This was at a time when “smartwatches” ran little more than recycled feature-phone software tied together with cumbersome interfaces. The article is just as it was in February, 2013. All I have done since then is to […]
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