http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/ —>Dive Into Accessibility, 30 days to a more accessible web site http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/by_disability.html —> Browse Tips by disability (This I found useful to me, esp. those cases.) http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/ —>Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
Going along the example sean gave of the text editor, i was wondering if you can add on to a list the instances where experience prototyping or designing has made a big difference in computers. I dont have that many examples but from the top of my head i can think of – 1. Picassa…
I’ve been pondering this question for awhile and I’d just like to put it out there … Is design a profession? I’d be anxious to read responses …
If you are interested in learning more about perspectives on web accessibility, you may be interested in the article Web Accessibility: A Digital Divide for Disabled People by Alison Adams and David Kreps. You can view the article by using an IU-networked computer or logging into the IU VPN. Here is the link: http://www.springerlink.com/content/x835p22217q3t143/ Regards,…
All, I’ve posted notes from today’s lecture. You can find the notes using either of the two links below: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu
All, Here are a few of the resources that I mentioned in today’s class … Boxes and Arrows, a journal “devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design”: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/ “Pencils Before Pixels: A primer in hand-generated sketching” – a great article from the current issues of Interactions: http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1081 (You’ll need to view after logging…
All,I’m so happy to back among friends. Thanks to everyone for your kind words and messages in the past four weeks — it meant a lot. I’ve posted notes from today’s lecture. You can find the notes using either of the two links below: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu
Now the course will shift with emphasis on skills and prototyping in a variety of dimensions (e.g. paper, lo/hi-fi, experience..). We will still be connecting this portion of the course to our earlier discussions on theories (e.g. hermeneutics, phenomenology, etc..). Examples of Prototyping (that is, particular portions of these phenomena): processes sequences conceptual models/frameworks interfaces…
Humans become accessories to the machine Four problems with rationalism in HCI idealizes computing, not seen in use users become accessories t othe machine (nbearers of mental models, informaiton processing devices) Computers in use is what we care about, rather than computers in the abstract. Rationalist approaches are not always good at getting at this.…
Interaction Culture 