The way usability specialists are commonly involved in projects proves not to be adequate in some cases, but the needs are HUGE, and the architectural approach to interface design can really fullfill them. Here is how interface architecture should find its way accross the development process of a web service, a software or a device:

Everybody is talking about experience, or user experience, and, really, this is where we go.
Let’s make a simple analogy with the real world: we know that different buildings serving the same purpose, may (hopefully) offer various architectural experiences. Le Louvre doesn’t offer the same experience to its visitors than the Guggenheim Museum. Both are museums, [...]

Good news! With Surface, Microsoft enters the domain of TUI (Tangible User Interface).
I’ll soon write about how TUI are going to change the way we interact with machines and web services. It really indicates that machines are coming closer to our physical world, instead of pushing us into virtuality.
More on this subject very soon.

Well, I finally got an invitation to try Joost Beta.
At first sight it seems pretty OK, but there is definitely a lack of content to really feel like using it regularly. The National Geographic channel is probably the most “interesting” channel featured as for now.
Speaking of usability, the best thing is probably the almost full [...]