Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Social Link Recommenders

In the light of other link aggregators like Digg, Stumbleupon and Delicious; and more recently, Twine try to make the gems of the web more findable. And of course, findability is part of Peter Morville’s famous UE honeycomb so this is obviously important to people, and this can be applied by saying that we must [...]


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 [...]


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22 March 2007 @ 9am

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Google’s New Personalisation

Anyone who uses Google’s personalised homepage might have noticed they added a feature enabling people to select 6 new themes for their page. The cool thing: the background image changes according to the weather in your local region. Instant, non-distracting, ambient information!
I tested this out, and I can surely say that the feature is cute, [...]


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