The changing face of HCI
Republished from The changing face of HCI, Interfaces 68 from the British Computer Society HCI Group. Recent collaborations into physiological studies such as ergonomics have greatly assisted the development of HCI and given a higher profile to considerations of context….
#Context matters in #Usability
While any kind of user testing is better than none, usability testing out of context is like testing a car on water, it gives some basic information and not a lot more. If performance and use are important at all, then testing should take place in an environment standard to the expected users.
#Lies damn lies and #user #experience
User experience has in recent years become the greatest area of fraud and theft in business. The most common request for people involved in user experience is to produce wireframes (low fidelity pictures) a task that a child could do.