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Top Gear Usability review

Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by itai vonshak.

I love top gear (the BBC car show) , and the reason I love top gear is that they call it as they see it. Just like a good designer does. They often say sentences like “this 100,000$ car is crap”
Below is one of my favorite car reviews of all time because even if your [...]

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Human interaction

Posted on 23. May, 2009 by itai vonshak.

Once in a while someone demonstrates the stupidity of a random HCI concept by switching the computer side with another human.
Usually this is done in a cartoon, image or a video. here are some examples of this rather funny and thought invoking concept…

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Are we looking for more realistic user experience in the virtual world?

Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Levin.

Remote Impact - Shadowboxing over a Distance
I was exposed to a physical game, a game that require physical effort from the user. This game has been attributed with many social, mental and in particular physical health benefits. The “Remote Impact - Shadowboxing over a Distance“, drives players to punch and kick a life-size shadow of [...]

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Platforms Vs Products

Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by itai vonshak.

The difference between a product and a platform seems to be (at least in the mind of the some industry leaders) that platforms need to allow everything and products are that small insignificant thing that we wrap up platforms and bits of hardware in order to sell to the public.

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Merging the benefits of physical interfaces and touch screens

Posted on 23. Mar, 2009 by Levin.

Physical buttons have the unique ability to provide low attention and vision free interactions through their intuitive tactile clues. The physicality of these interfaces makes them static,limiting the number and types of user interfaces they can support. Touch screen technologies provide the ultimate interface flexibility, but offer no inherent tactile qualities.
An interesting research by Chris [...]

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“What Do You Get When You Cross a Racing Bike with a Computer? “

Posted on 17. Mar, 2009 by Levin.

Alan Cooper can upgrade his book “The Inmates Are Running The Asylum” with “What Do You Get When You Cross a Racing Bike with a Computer?” The answer will be “A Computer”, we get a computer instead of racing bike. Shimano say that the Di2, electronically-controlled shifting system, battery will work for 1000km and the [...]

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The return of the handheld projectors

Posted on 14. Mar, 2009 by alex.

A year or so ago I blogged here about the real life use of mobile projectors. My basic point was that unless someone came up with a use that is different then “lets project a movieslide show from my cellphone” there is no way this technology will become a mass market product.
well it seems that [...]