Category Archives: Usability

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Windows 11 spook finished for me

Posted on October 31, 2021 by x28

Almost timely for Halloween, Windows 11 broke my taskbar, and so I had to go back to Windows 10. Continue reading →

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Augmenting human intellect

Posted on March 8, 2019 by x28

With the help of 26 other annotators, I tried to understand more about Doug Engelbart’s visionary text “Augmenting Human Intellect”. Why didn’t this work? What went wrong?
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Small differences

Posted on September 16, 2017 by x28

Big improvements of think tools are often achieved through rather small differences, such as the “targeted zooming”, or now the “semantic text view” of iMapping.
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Address bar usability

Posted on October 5, 2008 by x28

The address bar of the browser is more and more devaluated. In IE8 beta 2, a delete icon is right where I usually click.
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Information Design and Manipulation

Posted on January 12, 2008 by x28

A fascinating paper by Bret Victor provides an excellent analysis, and a debatable conclusion; That interactive elements are inappropriately used in information design, and that they should be reduced. I agree that they are not ideal BEFORE presentation of data but still have a great potential for knowledge work AFTER page loading.
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