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Apogee — “Dashboards allow users to view and access information from a single location, without having to navigate to separate ’silos’ to find the information they need.”
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“If the search engines are providing top results that are very different from each other, then by using only one search engine, Internet searchers are potentially missing relevant results.”
Yawn. If you are going to hit multiple search engines at once, why not use Mamma, metacrawler, or Dogpile?
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If you want to get an idea about what usability professionals are thinking about these days, I suggest you see the UPA’s 14th Annual Conference submission ideas page.
(Thanks for the link, Daniel Szuc.)

“Experts in any domain tend to lose awareness of the individual steps that they go through to produce their work. As their expertise grows and deepens over time, it becomes second nature, intuitive, and automatic. Ask them to break the process down for you and they might just stare blankly, genuinely befuddled. They know how […]

“By focusing on the user experience, the University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab aims to improve lives through projects such as the International Children’s Digital Library.”
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Oristus — “The first part of this article will help you decide if you want to create podcasts and audio content. Assuming you want to dive into podcasting, then the second goal is to help you do it right; usability applies to podcasts.”
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Inovdesigns — “A typical prototype contains very few graphical elements, most (if not all) back-end functionality is simulated, and data is static. […] The higher the level of fidelity of a prototype, the more complete and accurate it is at representing the final application. However, that completeness comes at a cost. Our solution is to […]

“Podcasting - it’s not just for iPod users, but too many non-iPodders have already dismissed the concept as something NOT important. That, to me, is a major problem. It’s nothing more than Internet radio at its core, folks. It’s audio, on-demand, that’s easily synchronized with your computer system / portable media device… in theory.”
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Gizmodo — “Well it seems that Network Solutions (our internet name registrar) has decided to cancel and suspend our primary, life-giving domain Gawker.com because of a failed credit card transaction over a month ago. Not a missed payment, mind you—we were registering a new name domain name and something went screwy (Choire probably left it […]

“The problems preventing effective relaying of crucial data included lengthy download times, software failures and lack of access to high-bandwidth communications.”
Even the military suffers from bandwidth and technology issues. How many problems were actually caused by poor usability?
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There is an analysis of Bush’s logo and Kerry’s logo in the New York Times. I encourage you to take a

“UsabilityMatters is a forum dedicated to discussing, improving and promoting the work of the Usability and Interaction design community in India. Here you can discuss, share and promote the knowledge and awareness of the bad designs, make-do design inventions (jugaad) and feel good concepts.”
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