Daniel Guerrero Thoughts » HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) http://blog.danguer.com freelancer, daily life, danguer, php, javascript, flex Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:21:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning http://blog.danguer.com/2007/11/23/communicating-design-developing-web-site-documentation-for-design-and-planning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=communicating-design-developing-web-site-documentation-for-design-and-planning http://blog.danguer.com/2007/11/23/communicating-design-developing-web-site-documentation-for-design-and-planning/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:10:10 +0000 danguer http://blog.danguer.com/2007/11/23/communicating-design-developing-web-site-documentation-for-design-and-planning/ I recently finished reading this excellent book. Even the first part not clearly explained like other books, the personas chapter is very good to present this good resource. It worth to keep in mind this phrase: “I think our users …

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]]> http://blog.danguer.com/2007/11/23/communicating-design-developing-web-site-documentation-for-design-and-planning/feed/ 1 Article: Untangling the Usability of Fisheye Menus http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/16/article-untangling-the-usability-of-fisheye-menus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=article-untangling-the-usability-of-fisheye-menus http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/16/article-untangling-the-usability-of-fisheye-menus/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:41:14 +0000 danguer http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/16/article-untangling-the-usability-of-fisheye-menus/ I’ve read at ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), the following article: Untangling the Usability of Fisheye Menus The article does a user testing on the usability of fisheye menus and reveals in terms of text menu they are worse …

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]]> http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/16/article-untangling-the-usability-of-fisheye-menus/feed/ 0 Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/16/dont-make-me-think-a-common-sense-approach-to-web-usability/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-make-me-think-a-common-sense-approach-to-web-usability http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/16/dont-make-me-think-a-common-sense-approach-to-web-usability/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:58:35 +0000 danguer http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/16/dont-make-me-think-a-common-sense-approach-to-web-usability/ I’ve finished reading this compact but excellent book: Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability The book is written in an easy to read form; you will pick up the basic aspects of usability in this …

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]]> http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/16/dont-make-me-think-a-common-sense-approach-to-web-usability/feed/ 0 Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/12/information-architecture-for-the-world-wide-web-2nd-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=information-architecture-for-the-world-wide-web-2nd-edition http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/12/information-architecture-for-the-world-wide-web-2nd-edition/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:58:41 +0000 danguer http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/12/information-architecture-for-the-world-wide-web-2nd-edition/ I’ve finished reading this excellent book, I think in some parts have a lot of content and some chapters are barely explained. This book mandatory for HCI / usability areas, it clearly explain the role of information architecture through examples, …

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]]> http://blog.danguer.com/2007/09/12/information-architecture-for-the-world-wide-web-2nd-edition/feed/ 0 Who said “Usability is Free”? http://blog.danguer.com/2007/08/17/who-said-usability-is-free/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-said-usability-is-free http://blog.danguer.com/2007/08/17/who-said-usability-is-free/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:29:09 +0000 danguer http://blog.danguer.com/2007/08/17/who-said-usability-is-free/ I read this article in the Interactions Magazine of this month, you can check from here: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1273971 The main point in this article is the lack of usability on most linux programs (including distros), without doubt there have been several …

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]]> http://blog.danguer.com/2007/08/17/who-said-usability-is-free/feed/ 0 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition http://blog.danguer.com/2007/07/01/proceedings-of-the-6th-acm-sigchi-conference-on-creativity-cognition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=proceedings-of-the-6th-acm-sigchi-conference-on-creativity-cognition http://blog.danguer.com/2007/07/01/proceedings-of-the-6th-acm-sigchi-conference-on-creativity-cognition/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:12:22 +0000 danguer http://blog.danguer.com/2007/07/01/proceedings-of-the-6th-acm-sigchi-conference-on-creativity-cognition/ While I was reading ACM Communications I found an announce of the 2007 SIGCHI conference focused on Creativity & Cognition. I browse the link and I saw the proceding is there I started to browse and I have to say …

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