Recent Entries

Adaptive User Interfaces

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Years ago, back in the days of Windows 95 and Mac OS 8 I had an interesting idea for providing a better user experience by utilising adaptive user interfaces.

Ten years later, after a rather surprising encounter with a particularly badly designed interface element in Vista, I am again reminded of the idea and thought I would mention it, because it appears that despite being discussed in academia it is yet to be explored or adopted in the commercial space, and the potential use has increased dramatically.

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Enabling Cultural Protocols Online

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Culturally, online information repositories such as Wikipedia are certainly more of a melting pot than a fruit salad. Each group’s particular and unique cultural considerations are typically absorbed and diluted by the overall conduct of the majority who don’t share the same beliefs.

It’s nice to think that we all understand this, and things are generally OK online. This is because we believe that we all have the same general idea of what is appropriate. I keep using the term “we”, and by that I am including myself in the mass of internet users that coalesce to form on overall view of what is appropriate culturally agnostic behaviour online. I call this the mass coalesce.

But can the internet be a better experience for people who fall outside of the mass coalesce?

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Rebooting

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Well, as a result of my attendance at Kiwi Foo again this year, and associated discussions with the likes of Chris Shiflett I’ve decided to resurface my blog and start discussing my thoughts online again.

The reasons are not as obvious as the narcissism that can be leveled at bloggers in general nor as simple as the psychofancy that can surround the blogosphere (apologies for using that word).
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