Archive for November, 2005

Usability’s Where You Find It – A Short Remark on Perceived vs. Objective Usability

Thinking about the claim on the water bottle shown in the picture prompted me to google on the topic of “perceived usability”.There’s a post by Don Norman on perceived vs. real usability and a short article on the importance of marketing usability (related to an IBM article that does not seem to be online anymore). [...]

Ruby New OOP Language…..

Check out new Object Oriented Language Ruby.
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html
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Morality and User Interface Design

Morality and User Interface Design are two topics that do not seem too closely related at first glance. After all, interface design is about “nice” and usable interfaces, but we as Usability Engineers and User Interface Designers don’t have to make decisions that have any severe impact on the morality side, right? – Well, how [...]

Automated IM Worm Is Inevitable

The sudden appearance of a rootkit file in a spyware-laden IM worm attack has set off new fears that malicious hackers are sophisticated enough to launch a fully automated worm attack against instant messaging networks.
In the most recent attack aimed at users of America Online Inc.’s AIM network, the “lockx.exe” rootkit file was bundled with [...]