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Karl (Carl) Smith, User Experience Blog karlsmith.info
A simple website may only include 8 top level pages, 50 secondary and...
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IA is not another name for UX karlsmith.info
User experience (UX) and Information Architecture (IA) are very...
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How soon will NUIs become the norm?
I want to share an interesting conversation I had with an entrepreneur who is developing natural user interfaces.
Interdisciplinary Computing Blog computing4society.blogspot.com
Do you sometimes wish you could know what the next big hot thing in technology will be? Who thought a few years ago that mobile devices would become so dominant? Yet currently, mobile devices are driving software and hardware...

UX/UE career options
I've worked in development for 15 years, the last 10 being with the web, primarily .Net and in recent years Python with both the GAE and ...

SURVEY ON SPEECH DIALOG SYSTEMS
As part of a quantitative study, we would appreciate your participation in an online survey about your opinion regarding Speech Dialog ...
Survey on Speech Dialog Systems – mmt.et.hs-wismar.de

Designing a user experience for brains that are 10,000 years... simplifyinginterfaces.com
When a user performs a task on a screen, it goes without saying he will use his brain and his eyes to analyze the content of the pages. The brain of users, such as yours or mine, consists of 3 layers: the reptilian brain, the...

Microsoft is the new Apple
Microsoft just keeps taking the fight to a new level, first Win8 a game changer, now iOS apps.
Microsoft will deliver mobile versions of its Dynamics CRM app and service for iPad, iPhone, Android phone, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 in the...

What conferences are you attending in 2012?
If you could not attend in person would you attend by live streaming and pay for a ticket?

A good read
Six Things User Experience Designers Forget When They Criticize Websites usabilitycounts.com
It’s easy to criticize the user experience of an application or website, because we’re all end users. But sometimes we use it once, while many have to use it day after day as a part of their job. We talk about how we like using...

I closed down my Facebook account yesterday
I don't really want to fully integrate my life into a digital realm. I mean I can see the value of it as an information gathering ...
If you didn't watch Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook announcements last week -- and of course the vast majority of Facebook users did not -- you may be in for a surprise. Aside from the...



Can you help evaluate and improve a new academic search engine?
For those of you who need to search for papers published in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, check out Odysci. Odysci is a new ...
Odysci is a web portal for academic search and rank and technical collaboration, in the computer science, electrical engineering and related research topics.

Usability and Accessibility standards and legislation
I've put together a list of standards and legislation that I'm aware of, what's missing?
Thanks.
Usability and Accessibility « Karl Smith's Blog karlsmith.info

Tool/app to remotely usability test mobile websites
I'm working on a project where I need to usability test a mobile website that users will get to via a smarttag (mobile barcode, QR ...

Anyone got any experience with selling UE, and have any info to share about what seems to be the best selling points?
I'm doing a presentation on how to sell User experience to decision makers. From what literature I've read now it seems that ROI is not ...

Research for designers
We still have some places open for January 2012 start in a new 1-year Masters in Information Environments at University of the Arts. You ...
