Seminars Offered on Embedded Design with a Voice User Interface

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New Advanced User Interface Design and
Usability Seminars Help Teams Deliver
Usable Software

New Advanced User Interface Design and
Usability Seminars Help Teams Deliver
Usable Software 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
New Cutting Edge Seminar Empowers Design Teams to Deliver Highly Usable Software [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

Voxeo and Voice Architects Announce
Voice User Interface Design, Analysis
and Tuning Services

Voxeo and Voice Architects Announce
Voice User Interface Design, Analysis
and Tuning Services 09/16/2004 03:12 AM
Voxeo Corporation, the leading standards-based VoiceXML and CCXML IVR platform provider, and Voice Architects, the leading provider of speech interface design, development, and optimization services, announced at the SpeechTEK 2004 conference today a partnership to deliver a suite of valuable Voice User Interface (VUI) services to Voxeo's enterprise IVR customers and Evolution IVR developers. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

User Interface Design for Web
Applications: It's a Different World
from Web Site Design

User Interface Design for Web
Applications: It's a Different World
from Web Site Design 11/15/2003 04:25 AM

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User interface design for web
applications: It’s a different world
from web site design

User interface design for web
applications: It’s a different world
from web site design 11/13/2003 04:16 AM

O'Reilly Network Column Discusses New
User Interface Possibilities Offered by
XUL

O'Reilly Network Column Discusses New
User Interface Possibilities Offered by
XUL 04/09/2004 04:05 PM

User Interface Design

User Interface Design 06/14/2002 12:15 PM
"(...) good design always involves a process of compromise."

Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers

Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers 10/10/2002 09:55 AM

User Interface Design for Programmers

User Interface Design for Programmers 05/31/2004 11:33 PM

I read Joel Spolsky's book over the weekend: "User Interface Design for Programmers." This is an excellent guide to usability — for client apps and for Web development.

The strength of the book is that it doesn't start by presenting many hard-and-fast rules, but instead concetrates on general concepts that you really need to understand to develop an effective user interface. People Can't Read. People Can't Remember. People Can't Control the Mouse. Design for Extremes. These principles then naturally lead to more specific guidelines.

For example: you know how when you first learn CSS, you put a textarea rule in your sheet to change the font in text boxes from that ugly monospaced, Courier font to some slick variably-spaced font? Looks nice, sure, but Joel demonstrates how hard it can be to edit for some people. Sure, it's fine for you, but you're young and you have an optical, USB mouse, and you've been using computers since you got out of diapers.

Sadly, however, everyone isn't you. Some users don't have your eyesight, motor skills, or experience, and your tiny little variably-spaced font is now a problem for them. Lower-case L's, for instance, are now just one pixel wide. A lower-case I differs from a lower-case L by only a single pixel. If two lower-cased L's are next to each other ("allegory"), there's only one pixel of "gutter" space between them — ever tried getting the text insert cursor to land exactly between them? You're literally trying to hit a 1-pixel wide target.

Upon reading this, I went back to an app I was writing and changed all text inputs and text areas to Courier New, 12px. It doesn't look as nice, but I'll concede that it's easier and clearer to edit. Sometimes usability comes at the price of how things look, but so it goes.

Joel touches on the user model and system model that I read about earlier this year in Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things." Simply put, a user forms a model in his or her head about how your app works. That model may have nothing to do with how it really works (the system model), but that's your problem, not the user's. Your goal as an interface designer, is to make the implementation model (how the interface represents the system model) match the user model as closely as possible.

The book is full of good ideas and really solid, non-frilly advice. Joel's obvious experience saturates every page (I gather he did the UI for the ISP Juno, and was on the Microsoft Excel team). It's full-color with glossy pages and scads of screen caps.

I'll finish here by hand-typing an excerpt that's so good I'll risk the copyright lawyers. It addresses a point I talked about a while ago when I was struggling with the non-confirmity of the Linux interface.

I've seen companies where management prides themselves on doing things deliberately different from Microsoft. "Just because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," they brag, and then proceed to create a gratuitouisly different interface from the one that people are used to. Before you start chanting the mantra "just because because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," please consider two things.

One, even if it's not right, if Microsoft is doing it in a popular program like Word, Excel, Windows, or Internet Explorer, millions of people are going to think that it's right, or at least fairly standard. [...and] if you refuse to do it on some general religious principle that Bill Gates is the evil Smurf arch-nemesis Gargamel then you are just gratuitiously ruining your program so that you can feel smug and self-satisifed [...]

Two, don't be so sure it's not right. Microsoft spends more money on usability testing than you do; they keep detailed statistics based on millions of tech support phone calls; and there's a darn good chance that they did it that way because more people can figure out how to use it that way.

As much as I hate to admit Microsoft is right, amen to that.

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Notes and Tips: User Interface Design

Notes and Tips: User Interface Design 06/05/2005 11:12 PM
Good Mac user-interface design isn't always easy....

Mapping User-Interface Design to
Cultural Dimensions

Mapping User-Interface Design to
Cultural Dimensions 09/16/2002 06:39 AM

Apple, Adobe join photography, design
seminars

Apple, Adobe join photography, design
seminars 06/09/2004 12:02 PM
Rapid Group Plc are holding a series of free photography and design workshops in London, Bracknell and Birminigham during July, at which Apple and Adobe will participate, reports MacUser...

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface 09/09/2002 06:29 AM

New User Group Report, more MUG news
offered

New User Group Report, more MUG news
offered 11/03/2003 01:23 PM
Sarah Friedlander, the newest member of the Apple Campus Group Advisory Board will give her first interview in this week's User Group Report, which will also offer reports on Mac User Groups from a Unix perspective, the first Platinum sponsors for User Group University, and why this UGU will be even better for vendors and attendees alike.

XMLHTTP call fails for URLs with
embedded user credentials

XMLHTTP call fails for URLs with
embedded user credentials 02/11/2004 02:35 AM
This fix will only enable the scenario where user credentials are passed as parameters in the Open() method call. It will not enable scenarios where the user credentials are embedded in the URL. Note: This partially undos MS04-04

REALbasic incentive offered for Apple
Design Awards

REALbasic incentive offered for Apple
Design Awards 05/10/2004 10:18 AM
REAL Software has announced a special incentive to encourage REALbasic developers to enter their software in the Apple Design Awards competition...

Translating services now offered by
Jacob Cane Design

Translating services now offered by
Jacob Cane Design 06/24/2004 02:25 PM
We are currently offering the translation between English > Arabic and Arabic > English. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2004]

The Zooming User Interface

The Zooming User Interface 08/15/2004 08:45 PM

Even in the present day, the desktop metaphor still pervades, but with increases in the amount of information available to any one person, this metaphor is felt to be in need of a reworking. The zooming user interface (ZUI) is an idea first discussed by Bederson (1993) as a radical change to the way in which a person interacts with a computer. This paper will initially discuss how a ZUI works, followed by a review of the empirical literature available.

Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

Zooming User Interface (ZUI) 08/17/2004 04:46 PM

Here's a fascinating rap on a new way to do UI's.

It's called ZUI.

Always interesting in that.....

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Other pages on OS X user interface

Other pages on OS X user interface 06/05/2005 11:39 PM
Other developers write about walking the user interface line—trying to be consistent but also having to create custom widgets to stay modern.

Michael Dupuis: “Sure there are ‘lesser’ elements available to us as developers, but they often don’t have the ‘bling’ that users come to expect.”

Dan Wood: “We have to walk the line in our user interface decisions all the time, trying to make an application look consistent with the Mac interface, and also ‘modern.’”

Organizers talk Mac Design Conference;
free passes offered

Organizers talk Mac Design Conference;
free passes offered 05/25/2004 11:34 AM
Organizers of the second annual Mac Design Conference say that attendance should hit 1,000, which would be an increase of 200 from the 2003 (and first) event...

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.23

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.23 06/03/2004 06:48 PM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

Report: User Interface Issues

Report: User Interface Issues 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
inconsistencies in Apple software, various design issues

IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder
1.0.0

IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder
1.0.0 08/09/2004 11:49 PM
A user interface building tool for Swing and Eclipse GUIs.

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.28

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.28 06/30/2004 07:24 PM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

UIDK (User Interface Development Kit)

UIDK (User Interface Development Kit) 10/29/2003 11:26 AM
Homepage

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines 12/06/2002 08:01 AM

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.22

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.22 05/31/2004 05:41 AM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

GLUI User Interface Library

GLUI User Interface Library 03/26/2005 09:25 PM
GLUI webpage has moved

History of the Graphical User Interface

History of the Graphical User Interface 11/25/2002 09:54 AM

Location X gets tweaked user interface,
more

Location X gets tweaked user interface,
more 10/30/2003 01:40 PM
Shareware authors Alex Keresztes and Greg Novick have updated Location X, the US$20 location manager for Mac OS X, to version 2.0, which offers a new user interface, new customization options and more.

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.29

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.29 08/15/2004 05:59 AM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

XUL Defines New User Interface Options

XUL Defines New User Interface Options 10/28/2002 11:23 AM

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.25

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.25 06/09/2004 05:18 PM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

User Interface System Requirements

User Interface System Requirements 05/22/2004 11:12 AM

nmap Graphical User Interface

nmap Graphical User Interface 06/15/2004 08:17 AM
NmapSi 0.2 Beta is Released!!

User-Interface Designers Take Note

User-Interface Designers Take Note 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

Spencer Critchley is going to travel with a hammer from now on. Watch Out!

MF Digital CD / DVD Duplication
Equipment Showcased on VIA Embedded
Design Winner Site

MF Digital CD / DVD Duplication
Equipment Showcased on VIA Embedded
Design Winner Site 06/01/2004 02:19 AM
MF Digital's Scribe EC 3000 Series of Standalone CD and DVD duplication equipment has garnered the attention of electronics design aficionados, being included in VIA Technologies Inc. “Embedded Design Win” products showcase. [PRWEB Jun 1, 2004]

WIN Enterprises Unveils EBX Embedded
Reference Design Featuring Low-Power AMD
Opteron CPU

WIN Enterprises Unveils EBX Embedded
Reference Design Featuring Low-Power AMD
Opteron CPU 03/28/2005 04:02 AM
WIN Enterprises, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of customized embedded systems, has unveiled a new AMD Opteron processor-based motherboard in the EBX form-factor. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]
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