Archive for the 'usability' Category

User experience is story telling.

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, [...]

Microsoft Surface

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.

Joost beta is here!

Filed under TV, UI, joost, usability

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 [...]

Of Zune and focus groups, the brown factor

Microsoft’s MP3 player sports 3 colors: black, white and… BROWN! This weird choice inspire me this reflexion about innovation, design, and focus groups.
As we all know innovation is certainly not a key for success when it is about market shares. Microsoft holds the biggest share in the global PC related software market. But they always [...]