Usability Quote of the Day

November 21, 2008

In the information age, as computers invade our lives and more and more products contain a chip of silicon, we find that what lies between us humans and our devices is cognitive friction, which is something new and something that we are ill-prepared to deal with. Our engineering skills are highly refined, but when we apply them to a cognitive friction problem, they fail to solve it. -- Alan Cooper, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, p. 92.   (via interaction-design.org)
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Monday, December 12, 2005

Introduction to Web 2.0

A good summary introduction of Web 2.0 ...

"Web 2.0 is an umbrella term referring to the ongoing transition to a full participatory Web, with participation including both humans and machines. Web 2.0 is characterized by the following themes:

The Read/Write Web: In which the Web is seen as a two-way medium, where people are both readers and writers. The main catalyst for this is social software, allowing communication and collaboration between two or more people.

The Web as Platform: In which the Web is seen as a programming platform upon which developers create software applications. The main catalyst for this is Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, allowing communication between two or more software applications.

The term "Web 2.0" was coined by Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly Media."   continued ...   (Via Squidoo/Joshua Porter)

Web 2.0 - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Web 2.0.

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