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25
Aug 2006

Popular Despite its Sins…

“Tell me, Yu Centrik: how in God’s name is it possible that a site like MySpace.com, with its rotten user interface, is one of the..

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21
Aug 2006

“Evolution, not Revolution”… And so He was right!

One aspect of our jobs as usability consultants is to make sure the products of our clients can be used with ease, efficiency, effectiveness and..

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18
Aug 2006

15 candles for the Web!

To highlight the Web’s 15th anniversary, John Naughton, from the British journal The Observer, draws a list of the 15 Web sites that have made..

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15
Aug 2006

Touch Generations: Fun on the Run for Busy People

While video game technology is going through a sort of coming-of-age, some experts feel there’s been a clear decline in video game innovation. One of..

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09
Aug 2006

An error message without error?

Still about error management and recovery, last week I was working with Macromedia Dreamweaver when for no reason this message was displayed: An error message..

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03
Aug 2006

Reflections on the Importance of Feedback in Human-Computer Communications

You may have noticed that email programs sometimes behave a little strangely when they’re being bombarded by spam and other invisible threats. The lack of..

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03
Aug 2006

www.hahaha.com – You’re Better Off Laughing about It…

The ticket sales section on http://www.hahaha.com (the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal) commits at least nine serious errors that prevent users from getting the..

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02
Aug 2006

The Frustration of E-Commerce

One of the most frustrating online experiences is, without a doubt, completing an online transaction without knowing for sure whether the transaction has been properly..

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19
Jul 2006

The digital Telepathy: from fiction to reality

Can we communicate without words, gestures nor mimics and remotely? The Parapsychology confirms it, however the objective sciences were less convinced until the 13th of..

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19
Jul 2006

Internet Soul Portraits

The artwork “Internet Soul Portraits” by Mark Callahan presents an impressive gallery of well-known homepages deprived of their contents (Yahoo, Google, MSN, Amazon, CNN, eBay,..

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