Tag Archives | Human Computer Interaction

Google+ Snapseed help overlay showing meaning of symbols as well as gestures

First Principles of Interaction Design (Revised & Expanded)

By on 5 Mar 2014 in First Principles, HCI Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Principles of HCI Design, Usability Testing

The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments, the web, mobile devices, wearables, or Internet-connected smart devices. Help! This is a huge revision. I expect I have made mistakes. Please leave corrections and suggestions in the Comments at the end. If you have better examples […]

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The Third User

By on 6 Mar 2013 in Apple, HCI Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability Testing, User Experience

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 Martian Watch

The Apple Watch, Tog’s Feb 2013 Prediction

By 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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