Videos tagged with usability

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Eric Gelinas spoke about the challenges involved in building interfaces for geotagging and mapping. Using examples from Flickr and other sites, he covered the dos and don'ts of building geo interfaces and shared what he learned while building Flickr's geotagging UI.

jez Fletcher and Luke MaheMaps API applications are accessed on desktop and mobile devices of many shapes and sizes. Each application has unique goals for conveying information effectively and for facilitating user interactions. Learn how to improve user experience by optimizing the presentation of your map and data and by thoughtful user interface design.

Marti will talk about her recently published book, "Search User Interfaces," which presents the state of the art of search interface design, based on both academic research and deployment in commercial systems. Professor Marti Hearst, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.Google Tech TalksNovember 23, 2009

The Eyes-Free Project (which you might have seen featured by the New York Times) aims to enable fluent eyes-free use of mobile devices running Android. Target uses range from eyes-busy environments like in-car use to users who can't or don't want to look at the visual display. Hear from Charles Chen and T.V Raman from the Eyes-Free team about the Text-To-Speech (TTS) API, as well as some of the...

Summary This session addresses abstract notion of simplicity, looks at why it is critical in modern UI design and answers questions: Why does simplicity matter? Is there a meaningful definition of simplicity? Why do design processes and good intentions undermine simplicity? What processes and techniques can software developers use to achieve simplicity? Bio Giles has twenty years experience at ...

Come hear about the overall user experiences that link up physical spaces with a user's interaction on the Web, and see how businesses and buildings are using experience design to transcend the Web and kiosk and to integrate interactive experiences directly into the fabric of the buildings we live, work, shop, and play in. Daren May Paul Dawson Paul joined EMC Conchango in 1999, having been in ...

Learn how Cynergy Systems uses "Look First Development" to create great RIA and Desktop applications. See how Cynergy uses rapid iterative prototyping to capture, refine, and elaborate requirements and then build beautiful, desirable software. Aaron Adams  

Prototyping can be challenging. Especially prototyping in DHTML. But over the last few years a number of tools, techniques, libraries and frameworks have emerged making the task easier. Drawing from years of experience at companies such as Yahoo! and Netflix, come hear Bill Scott discuss these solutions and best practices for laying out pages rapidly, injecting interactive behavior and simulati...

Come hear how Terralever was able to use the powerful new features of Internet Explorer 8 to change how users interact with the Digg Web site. Learn how using Accelerators and Web Slices changed the way users are able to discover, as well as simplify submitting stories. We look at how taking advantage of these exciting features can improve a users experience, while increasing the number of user...

The Wii remote is a sophisticated controller containing a variety of sensing capabilities. In this session, Johnny Lee covers several interaction techniques enabled by the Wii remote and explains how you can develop your own applications. Johnny also introduces a few of his other research projects in the broader domain of Human-Computer Interaction. Johnny Lee Johnny Chung Lee is a Researcher a...