Archives for Category: Usability
W3C Webinar: Developing Portable Mobile Applications with Compelling User Experience using the W3C MMI Architecture
The capabilities of mobile devices are increasing at a remarkable rate. This is true not only with respect to basic hardware capabilities, but also in terms of the ways that we can interact with these devices. User interaction through speech,...
Filed by Deborah Dahl on January 25, 2013 7:36 PM in Mobile, Usability, Web Applications, Web of Devices
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IndieUI: Events expands user interface interactions for mobile and more
The IndieUI Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of IndieUI: Events 1.0. IndieUI: Events focuses on common types of user interface interactions that are controlled in different ways across platforms, such as scrolling the view, canceling an action, changing the value of a user input widget, selecting a range, placing focus on an object, etc. These user intentions can be inferred from hardware- and platform-specific user interactions through the keyboard, mouse, speech, or touch input.
Filed by Michael Cooper on January 22, 2013 3:00 PM in Accessibility, Usability, Web Design, Web of Devices
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HTML Slidy on smart phones and tablets
Slidy is a free web application for slide presentations, and makes use of a simple HTML microformat for slides. Until recently, Slidy was difficult or impossible to use on keyboard-less touch screen devices like the iPhone or Android phones. I...
Filed by Dave Raggett on October 8, 2011 6:59 PM in HTML, Usability, Web Applications
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Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer
At a sad time at which the world has just lost Steve Jobs, it is well to reflect on some of the things which he, his passion, and his creations have given us, as now the technical community should take...
Filed by Tim Berners-Lee on October 6, 2011 3:57 PM in Usability
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