The first Keynote on this years British HCI conference was by Stephen Payne who talked about task switching and studying of multiple texts. He talked about how users use different strategies to find the information they’re looking for and how it is important to give clues to which content is the most relevant.
So in this world that’s overloaded with information, how do you choose the best text? (more…)
A lot is happening in the world of enterprise search. Recent blog posts include discussions of how enterprise 2.0 tools can be integrated into corporate systems; see discussions of taxonomies or integration on Social Glass for example. Or take a look at Bill Ives examples of people who achieved success with E 2.0, on the FAST Forward blog.
These new trends are also starting to affect how we talk about usability. A couple of months ago there was a seminar about how web 2.0 technology have consequences for usability. (Watch the video from the seminar Usability 2.0.)
A lot of the people I meet in my work use these new web 2.0 tools daily. They ask me why metadata and taxonomies have to be so complicated when you can do “that web 2.0 stuff” with tagging. They say they prefer “the easy way” and prefer folksonomies over structures; they don’t think they can trust the structures anyway. People, who would like to work in an organization like Charlies.
Traditionally intranets are about control; we want to control what information people get and when and how they get it, instead of trying to make sure that people have the information they need when they need it.
I did some sketches for a search driven portal the other day. One of the comments I got was: “Wow! Why can’t we do that?”
I attended the conference Business to Buttons in Malmö last week. Two very interesting days with lots of seminars and discussions with colleagues. Amongst many other things I attended a workshop about the future of media interfaces and got some interesting new ideas. (more…)
Recently there has been some discussion about the usability of navigators for search results and about faceted navigation through metadata. It is said that navigation through clustered categories is often unintuitive for the user.
(more…)
You are currently browsing the archives for the Usability category.
I liked your Berlin Buzzwords video and I will certainly watch the others as... Here are 2 more, one from Berlin Buzzwords and another from Enterprise...Academia Analytics Architecture Big Data Business Company Conference Connector Content refinement Data Processing Development Digital Workplace Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise Search FAST Findability Findwise Future development Google Governance IBM Information Architecture Information management Information quality Information Retrieval Information seeking behaviour Interaction Design Internet search Intranet Knowledge management Language support Lecture Lucene Market trends Microsoft Mobile Open Pipeline Open source Presentation Relevancy Research Search Search Analytics Search Business Analysis Search Watch Semantic Sharepoint Solr Strategy Survey Technology Testing Text Analytics Trust Uncategorized Usability User Experience Vendors Web 2.0
