OCGM (pronounced Occam['s Razor]) is the replacement for WIMP
WIMP is the current acronym for the Windows User Experience. It stands for Windows Icons Menus Pointing Devices. In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for “window, icon, menu, pointing device“, denoting a style of interaction using these elements. It was coined by Merzouga Wilberts...
Critical thinking on Progress Indicating Traffic Lights and a challenge to you
Interesting update: With everyong heading to a more “green” design direction, most never took into account that the new LED lights will not generate enough heat to melt snow (source). This is such an obvious problem that I really doubt they had a professional Experience Designer involved....
Empathy and Emotionally intelligent signage
I was recently reading an article from Daniel Pink, a self confessed sign nut. He was discussing a great topic that I believe gets so little coverage in the design world. The power and language of empathy in messaging and signage and in user experience as a whole. In particular he had two specific points...
Where did all the interface designers come from?
Every week, sometimes a few times a week, I cruise related sites in an interesting way. I try to find an interesting story on one of the mob-media controlled sites, reddit or digg et al, and then from there I try to only click links without using the keyboard. I follow the rabbit hole from story to story...