31 Jul 02 79646254
Children’s Text Messages are the Key to Their Future
The way children write text messages on a mobile phone could hold the key to their future career, a survey claims. Researchers examined how different professions wrote text messages and divided them into four groups – creatives, jugglers, controllers and facilitators. The research was carried out for Woolworths and 1,000 mobile phone users were interviewed.
Tags: User Experience
30 Jul 02 79611763
Everything I Need to Know About Usability, I Learned at the Arcade
Usability has been an issue for video games since the first user complained of a sore thumb. Because of this constant pressure, video games have generally been at the leading edge of usability. Ideas that test out well in video games are often incorporated into productivity software, but productivity software still tends to lag behind, ignoring usability lessons that have already been learned.
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30 Jul 02 79604214
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
You may think you are more productive under deadline pressure�but you probably are not. Groundbreaking new research from Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and her colleagues has lessons for leaders trying to build more creative organizations.
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29 Jul 02 79568755
WebVisions Conference
On August 16, Nick Finck and friends are putting on the WebVisions conference in Portland, Oregon. Jesse James Garrett and other interesting people will be speaking. If you’re in the neighborhood, or just looking for an excuse to visit that wonderful town, check it out.
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