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03
Oct 2008

Good news in website design: the BBC site

For the past few years, the BBC website has been my primary source of news. The website design team is able to keep the navigation..

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01
Oct 2008

New Major Projects

We are proud to announce several new projects with Unesco, Tata Communications Group and CIHI.  These projects each involve a user-centered approach; the same winning..

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03
Sep 2008

Nokia MindTrek Awards 2008

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition, one of the categories in MindTrek Awards. The other MindTrek Awards are only for entries made..

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25
Aug 2008

Violation of a touch-screen standard

While walking through the Berri-UQAM Subway Station in Montreal, I noticed that a cell-phone company named Koodo (a low-cost brand of Telus) has implemented touch-screen..

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21
Aug 2008

iPhone – Brilliant but…

Here is a short account of our experiences with the iPhone after three weeks of use. Joëlle – iPhone: 20 days For: The all-in-one concept..

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31
Jul 2008

Facial expression, a reflection of user experience

Recently, an article on Technaute (Cyberpresse) caught my attention.  It’s about Phillip Toledano, a photographer from New York who takes stunning portraits of real people..

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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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