Using Braille on pharmaceutical packaging, what a great idea!!! Just try to figure out how to distinguish from one medicine to another when you have few of them in your bathroom and you can’t read what’s on the packaging. It must be troublesome. Since October 2010, all medicines sold in European Union countries must display [...]
A really nice video showing the design company IDEO re inventing the shopping cart (the real one you use, or not, in supermarket) while using several different techniques such as interviews, contextual observations, prototyping, etc. It’s worthwhile to watch it. Thanks to Harry Brignull for sharing this video. I left NZ a month or so [...]
I love reading magazines, I was subscribed to Fast Company and Wired for several years before coming to NZ. Now, I still receive my UPA (Usability Professional Association) magazine here in NZ. As far as I remember, the UPA magazine has always been wrapped in a sealed plastic bag, which could be frustrating to open. (a [...]
Do you know how to make your recorded talk, that you will broadcast on Youtube, easy to understand? I have seen a nice way to do it at the Webstock mini (Wellington, NZ). Daniel Button presented his TED talk (Yes, he came to show us a recorded talk…) but, instead of seeing him giving his [...]
I love seeing an application that caters for two personas like the xe.com iPhone app. Ted The Tourist lives in New Zealand but he is planning a trip to Australia, so he checks the currencies once a week until he buys Australian dollars before leaving. What he needs to know is the value with a [...]
Hey, I just started a flickr group about Great user experience! While working in the usability field, we are often talking about bad and great user experience. I have found several Flickr groups about bad design/bad experience but I haven’t found one that lists great design/great user experience. So here is one.
