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  UK Usability Professionals' Association 

  http://www.ukupa.org.uk/

  The UK Chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association brings together UK professionals from the design, technology and research communities who share a vision of creating compelling technology that ... meets users' needs and abilities. Join the UK UPA Membership gives you free entry to UK UPA events enabling you to network with your peers in the industry and more. Event news Beyond "usable security": how to manage the human element in security M. Angela Sasse, Professor of Human-Centred Technology, University College London ****Please note this event was due to take place on Thursday December 13th but has been postponed until Thursday January 24th.**** Research in usable security commenced 10 years ago, when it was found that many users make mistakes using security tools, or shortcut difficult and cumbersome security procedures. But is "making it easy for users to do the right thing" sufficient to ensure that users comply with security policies? I will argue that it is not. To design   [More...] [Less...]

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  Japan aging suit puts car makers in senior circuit | Technology | Reuters 

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  ATSUGI, Japan (Reuters) - Planning for your old age? Designers in Japan are. Carmaker Nissan Motor is using a specialized driver's suit and goggles to simulate the bad balance, stiff joints, weaker eyesight ... and extra five kilograms (11lbs) that may accompany senior citizenry. Associate chief designer Etsuhiro Watanabe says the suit's weight and constriction help in determining functionality and accessibility within cars by putting young designers not only in the minds of the mobility-challenged, but also in their bodies. "Difficulty in walking, back pains, trouble in lifting arms -- we wanted to consider assorted infirmities," said Watanabe of the concept known as universal design. "It's easy to do this for the young, but we wanted to design for adverse conditions and see what modifications are needed." An ageing suit was first used by Nissan a decade ago, while Japanese washlet maker Toto uses such suits to simulate bathroom mobility, even including tub water as part of the program. L   [More...] [Less...]

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  UPA - The Usability Professionals' Association 

  http://www.upassoc.org/

  The Usability Professionals' Association The UPA supports those who promote and advance the development of usable products, reaching out to people who act as advocates for usability and the user experience. ... Members come from across the broad family of disciplines that create the user experience. We invite you to network in our community. More about UPA… UPA Conference , will be held in Baltimore on June 16-20, 2008. UPA News UPA Voice - December 2007 Articles on the future of UPA, guidelines for voting systems, optimizing basic product features; and a bio of Randolph Bias. UPA Board of Directors Voting is now closed. The results of the election will be announced in January. Articles on research papers for practitioners, transforming usability data into information, evaluation of mobile phones, and clustering for participant selection. Catalyze Announcing an online community for usability professionals. Catalyze is a networking site where members can share experiences, find resources, a   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 8 January 2008, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  Website Designers / Website Designs - Website Design Collection - Darkeye 

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  Website Designers and their Website Designs - Darkeye! DarkEye is a real-time searchable collection of more than 6,000 website designs. Designers summit original web designs, which Darkeye processes to ... exact and store searchable data for color, keywords, and meta information. Viewers can browse, search, rate and comment on website designs and easily contact each designer. DESIGNERS // Instantly add your website design below:   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 20 June 2008, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  Pencils before pixels: a primer in hand-generated sketching 

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  The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2008 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows ... Media Player Real Player   [More...] [Less...]

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  DiD - Discovery in Design: People-centred Computational Issues 

  http://www.ip-cc.org.uk/did/

  Discovery in Design: People-centred Computational Issues An EPSRC 'Designing for the 21st Century' Cluster The objective of the cluster is to identify primary research aspects concerning the development ... of people-centred computational conceptual design environments that engender concept and knowledge discovery across diverse design domains. Current computer-aided design tools support the later, well defined stages of design where the design product is physical, tangible, and comprehensible. However, more abstract concept formulation and development is poorly supported, especially where uncertainty is an inherent characteristic. Furthermore, computer-aided design is domain specific. There is little or no exploitation of cross-domain experience. This cluster will identify research issues that have the potential to redress both these imbalances. Cluster activities concern the identification of people-centred issues relating to computational aspects that include: concept representation and   [More...] [Less...]

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  HTMLCenter | Web Development and HTML Blog 

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  The more we rely upon CSS , the larger and more complex stylesheet files become. Planning and organising your stylesheet is essential to creating a lean, manageable website. There are many ways of organising ... CSS code but the following are best practice… Comment your stylesheet Commenting your stylesheet makes it much easier to find the information or the commands you’re looking for. Read the rest of this entry » After my unfortunate adventures with the bandwidth limitations of my Internet connection, I decided to search the Web for some sort of utility that would help me monitor and hopefully limit my downloads and uploads. While I didn’t find anything that would actually limit my downloads and uploads (no utilities that would temporarily disable my Internet connection if I got close to my limits), I did find a really nice utility for monitoring my connection. Read the rest of this entry » AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML , is an innovative way of using existing technologies to   [More...] [Less...]

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