Homepage image from wattzon User Experience Designers have a direct impact (their work) and an indirect impact (usage of their designs) on the environment we live in. The latter is especially important: Since designers influence the behaviour of users through their designs, good or bad design decisions can multiply the good or bad effect it [...] Read more – ‘Environmental Sustainability in User Experience Design’.
Last saturday I have been part of the Breitband-Tabletgipfel, a broadcast by Breitband on Deutschlandradio Kultur. During the round table discussion Ben Schwan (tech journalist), Jörg Kantel aka Der Schockwellenreiter (blogger and IT-lead at Max-Planck-Institut), Jason Forrest (experimental music pioneer) and myself talked about the tablet market, closed systems vs open source, music production on [...] Read more – ‘Tablet Talk’.
In addition to German industry experts, Page also asked me for some input on the topic. Unfortunately, the article about the web is not available online, but it is well worth purchasing the magazine. The report gives a good insight into how people work on usability and describes many different methods. It is especially worthwhile [...] Read more – ‘PAGE Coverage of Concept Development’.
Actually multitouch tables are designed to work completely intuitively. Unlike standard touch screens, the multitouch technology allows for use of more than one finger for controlling the screen, thus enabling interaction with gestures. Such a user interface is also referred to as a Natural User Interface (NUI) because elements of that interface can be handled [...] Read more – ‘Design Patterns for Multitouch Tables’.
Article rankings are a tool widely used among online newspapers and social networks. Sometimes they come as little widgets in the margin while at other times, rankings are the website’s main feature. There are many ways to rank articles, but what is good for your website and how effective are these ranking systems? Read more – ‘Most Popular’.
At re:publica 09 I attended a very interesting workshop held by Bicyclemark about Twitter and journalism. I did some research of my own; a short abstract on this topic can be found below. Read more – ‘Twitter and Journalism’.
Recently, some interesting concepts emerged about how consumers can save energy and carbon dioxide with tools on the web. The basic idea is to gather data about your personal energy consumption and to draw conclusions from this. Read more – ‘Online Tools to Reduce your Carbon Footprint’.
What will the future of online journalism look like? According to the New York Times – currently the benchmark for news websites – quality news is soon going to be free and all over the web. The NYT has released a couple of open interfaces (APIs) to their database. With these APIs, users are free [...] Read more – ‘New York Times Open’.
The Microsoft Office labs released a nice video presenting their vision of the year 2019. It features multitouch screens and sensors everywhere, interacting devices and amazing gadgets such as electronic newspapers. You will most likely find some inspiration even for designing today’s interfaces and interactions. I would have loved to be part of one of [...] Read more – ‘The Future of Interaction’.
