Q&A: Bruce Tognazzini on human-computer interaction
Bruce Tognazzini was Apple's 66th employee, developing the company's first usability guidelines and founding its Human Interface team.
Almost thirty years later, he's a principal at Nielsen Norman Group and still making his feelings known when companies commit design errors.
Here, 'Tog' gives us a variety of thoughts on interface design, freedom, the future of computing, the iPhone's place in world history and why he travels around in a 400 sq ft motorhome while towing a 4x4 and two Segways.
How to use images to increase conversion
Webcredible’s Mrudula Kodali has published some handy tips for using photography in e-commerce – an issue etailers are increasingly grappling with as competition increases and search engines display more multimedia results.
Mrudula says photos can help consumers get a better feel of products on offer, but have to "work hard" to overcome the web's limitations.
See a brief run-through of her suggestions after the jump:
User experience - latest roundtable briefing
E-consultancy has just published a User Experience Roundtable Briefing based on a lively discussion which took place in London last month.
Interview: E.ON UK’s Paul Squires on multi-lingual content
Are you catering for the thousands of people in the UK whose first language isn't English? If not, you might be missing a trick.
Here, we speak to E.ON UK new media manager Paul Squires about its multi-lingual content strategy and the potential boost it can give to customer service and sales.
AJAX and accessibility - Jaws to the rescue?
RIAs like Ajax often have an accessibility weak spot since they need to work with JavaScript off to meet the basic accessibility guidelines.
Rumour has it that the next version of the popular screen reader Jaws may be able to handle Ajax interfaces.
Revealed: world's top 10 user experience gurus
As part of our recent usability research, we asked respondents to name their favourite gurus in the field of user experience, with the aim of producing a Hall of Fame.
Accessibility Best Practice - Switch Off to Get On?
After the high profile that accessibility was given 18 months ago following the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act, have things really changed?
Usability market to grow 20% in 2007 - new report
The UK market for usability and accessibility will grow by 20% in 2007 to a value of around £180 million, according to a new report published this week by E-consultancy.Olympics logo causes fits, but defended
The London 2012 Olympics effort has attracted international ridicule after it was forced to remove an animated version of its controversial new logo because it was causing epileptic seizures.
The dayglo, nu rave-style jigsaw images have drawn derision - and several attempts to do better - since their unveiling on Monday. But the online animation fuelled the matter further after Epilepsy Action requested its removal following complaints from sufferers.
Graduates divided over online marketing courses
I took advantage of bigmouthmedia's recent recruitment reception to survey 107 graduates.
Lots of them thought their universities did enough to highlight the importance of the internet, but an equal number strongly disagreed.
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Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
