Oh usability
I miss doing usability studies. I didn’t think it would kick in so soon, but it’s true. I was talking with a friend today about things like how to administer a think-aloud script, advantages and disadvantages to moderating from behind the glass, and how to get buy-in from the whole team on the objectives for [...]
Gibson Affordances and Norman Affordances
Found another good article called Affordances: Clarifying and Evolving a Concept [pdf] that describes differences between J.J. Gibson’s original concept of affordances and how it was later extended by Don Norman. It gets a bit nitpicky about how each has used the term affordance, and goes so far as to do a literature review on [...]
Affordances and Visual Perception
Killing time waiting for class to start, I’m reading a book on visual perception. It’s covering J.J. Gibson’s theories about perception, which revolve around what he called “affordances” – yep, the same ones Don Norman writes about. Don Norman has two good articles that clarify and extend the use of the term for the design [...]
Made it to Pittsburgh
I saw Minority Report here in Pittsburgh with a classmate from the Interaction Design program and another from the HCI program. It was a good film compared AI or any of the other recent Spielberg stuff. Plenty of nifty future gizmos too, interfaces and gadgets and all that. There’s all the stuff you see in [...]
Utterly Delinquent
Yes, I’ve been away, and it’s such poor form to leave a post about a going away party as the most recent post weeks after the party. It was nice seeing everyone who came to see me off, and those who didn’t were missed. I left SF at 1 am two weeks ago and spent [...]