Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Multiple From Address in Apple Mail

I’ve tried Apple’s Mail application a few times before - the responsiveness of a native application to handle your emails cannot be replicated with a web application. One thing I have never figured out how to do is an easy way to select a different from address when composing a new mail. Outlook did this, [...]


RIA Apps Hindering Usability?

Phi blogs about WPF and consistency in RIA UIs:
“There is also a fundamental design problem that has never before occured in the past, but will completely free and open-ended interface designs hinder the end-user at all?”. “With the advent of these two new technologies (Adobe Flex/AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight and WPF), has come the first [...]


Nokia 6280 Mass SMS

I just tried to send an SMS to around 60 people telling them of my number change. Nokia have adopted a “place a check mark next to the names and we’ll add them all to the to: list” approach. I think “great!”, only to spend 15 minutes going through some 300+ contacts, adding the names [...]


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