This is my third post in the series about UX Brighton 2011 and is an overview of three talks ranging from age discrimination to how to justify investment in design and how to encourage large businesses to think more creatively. After lunch Simon Johnson spoke about the aging question, dignity through design, which highlighted not only the short-sightedness in overlooking user testing older people when… Read more…
This is my second post in the series about UX Brighton 2011 and looks at two of the talks that touched on information architecture and how systems need to be more in line with human thinking than traditional IA taxonomy methods. Andrea Resmini gave an interesting talk on Designing cross-channel user experiences and how the boundaries are blurring between the physical and the digital. His… Read more…
Google announced more information on their forth-coming operating system today. The operating system focuses around the migration to ‘Cloud’ technology where files and documents are all saved on servers over the internet, resulting in the need for an advanced ‘online’ operating system. Whats Eating Gilbert Grape Untraceable movie download Sky High The Wild One film Dead and Gone divx Cry Freedom video The Videos below… Read more…
It was only a matter of time really. With the release of Google Chrome many people anticipated that Google’s next step was to step on Microsoft’s toes and go for the Operating System market and now it is happening, well in 2010 release date anyway.
“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.”
- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
The best part of it is that it’s free and open source so those of you that have Android mobile phones know what to look forward too!
All looks very exciting but it will mean that everything i do will be done in-line with Google, which freaks even me out!
Could this show us the future of interactive websites development?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8077369.stm
The new Xbox controller shows the ability to be part of the ‘game’ or more importantly the screen. One of the examples seen in the video on the BBC is a woman trying on different clothes – this is amazing and shows the possibility to interact directly with the website – try on clothes before you buy.
Really exciting look at the future!
