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Love at first SITE (from a usability perspective atleast.)
Some stats and UI recos from one blog on “unfolding the fold”:
(Having one of those moments when I really want to use an example of something that unfortunately must remain top secret. Grr…)
Alternative forms of communication become necessary when conventional techniques (voice, body language) are compromised due to variety of circumstances.
This super cool technology is still in its infancy though moving fwd due to grant money and such. Basically, the idea is to have a person use their tongue as a mouse and the teeth as keyboards, eventually. By tracking the movements, even on a basic level, the technology allows a person who may not have been able to communicate in any other way to now answer basic yes/no questions.
There has been movement to utilize eye movements but it was found to be costly, slow and likely for mixed signals. (We certainly dont need any more mixed signals!)
BTW, I dont exactly know the segue for this except some neuron in my head connected the movie Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.) Various assistive technology techniques are used to enable this former editor-in-chief of Elle magazine to write a book, despite his movement being limited to only his head and left eye.
Although my iPod still works (after severe water damage inflicted upon it few weeks back), the screen is totally busted. Therefore, the music I have been able to play is based solely the memory of the navigation once displayed on the screen that is no longer there.
It got me thinking about things I could SEE versus the things I could NOT SEE but somehow knew they were there. I wondered how blind people use these devices (after all, I was essentially navigating the device as a blind person would.)
Apparently, they don’t. The “zen pod,” or Creative Zenstone does (even tho it was not originally intended for that purpose) due to the fact that its a non-screen-based model. Apple shuffle can be used for this, as well.
It is sad how the amount of screen-based interfaces permeating the market today is actually cutting out an entire group of users.
Somehow, in the initial set-up of my Tumblr blog (which is essentially the RSS from this blog), I had encountered a less than ideal UX.
One of the following (or both) scenarios had occurred:
1. I clicked twice on the “submit” button due to lack of indication (aka FEEDBACK) that the request had been processed thereby initializing a replica of the original post . (ps. this is why e-commerce sites tell you not to click the “buy” button twice.)
2. Bug! (It made two links to Rss when it should’ve just made one.)
Note: This is not an isolated occurance. I get duplicate blog posts from friends on my RSS reader all the time, which leads me to believe Tumblr is behind that, as well.
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONKEY ISLAND!!!!
In the Social Media match between social networks Facebook & Mixi, Facebook wins US but Mixi takes Japan. But why the discrepancy?
Cultural differences dictate interactions that replicate themselves within digital social environments. Yup.
So when an application/product/whatever attempts to broaden its reach to a more global base, there is more than just a change in language to take into consideration.
Its official. What a sad day.
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