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Year: 2008

16
Jul 2008

Audio interface design as influenced by perception research

Research in “auditory psychophysics” represents the deep-level study of how the physics of sound is represented by our conscious mind.So what does that have to..

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10
Jul 2008

How does your site look on an iPhone? (2)

In the last article, we saw a few websites simulated on the new iPhone. From these examples, it became clear that sites in general will..

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26
Jun 2008

How does your site look on an iPhone?

The iPhone’s landing on Canadian soil, as I already mentioned in my previous blog, provides us with a new platform and a whole new paradigm..

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12
Jun 2008

Conference Report: Unpredictability in Video Games

Five speakers linked to the field of video games and coming from various specialties presented their vision of the video games of today and tomorrow..

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28
May 2008

Review of the ChitChat on May 27th, 2008

Last night the second ChitChat Yu Centrik was held, and we can say without hesitation that the evening was a success! Over sixty people from..

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25
Apr 2008

When replacing obsolete icons…

One of the most sensitive subjects in a product revision project is the management of reactions to change, the transition between old and new.  How..

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15
Apr 2008

IA Summit: Day 4

It’s 1 in the morning and here I am back in Montreal after the last day of the conference: quite the positive experience. Some of..

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14
Apr 2008

Guidance : Readability and graphic treatment of labels

Self-proclaimed as the new “Youtube Killer”, Hulu, the project of both NBC and News Corp, just came out as a public beta. The launching was..

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13
Apr 2008

IA Summit: Day 3

On this third day of the IA Summit, a specific presentation in particular inspired me: “Extending the gaming experience to conventional UIs” by John Ferrara.  It showed..

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12
Apr 2008

IA Summit: Day 2

As expected, the day started off with Jared Spool’s keynote.  Always funny and provocative, his presentation was based on an expression the left everyone perplexed:..

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