My Podcast

MFG Innovationcast
Mensch mit Maschine – Prof. Astrid Beck über Mensch-Computer-Interaktion und Usability
Internetnutzer haben hohe Ansprüche an Webseiten: sie müssen gut bedienbar, interaktiv und visuell ansprechend sein. Denn hochwertige Inhalte im World Wide Web fesseln niemanden, wenn die Usability, also die Benutzungsfreundlichkeit ausbleibt.
I am talking about Usability, new interfaces, websites in China… (in German).

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Design 4 Disadvantaged

Design for the Disadvantaged D4D
Design for the Disadvantaged D4D was recently launched in Shanghai, a project to help those most in need by taking the collective knowledge and skills of designers.

Who are the Disadvantaged? No, these are not (only) disabled people but all those which don’t belong to the world’s fortunate [...]

10 Tips: International UI

10 Tips for Building International User Interfaces
1. Use a user centred approach
Contact real users, not only your customer, watch and interview users in their natural working environment. Do task and context analysis. Analyse requirements of users. Identify the people who will use the product, what they will use it for, and under what conditions they [...]

Chat at Second Life

This week I attended a meeting with some of my colleagues of Hochschule Esslingen and experts for University enrollment from other institutions presented by ZEIT ONLINE. Prospective students where offered the oppportunity to discuss tips and tricks in order to find the right University and study programme. I attended as a virtual person, a so [...]

Baidu Elderly Search

Baidu, competitor to google and China’s leading search engine, launched a search engine especially designed for older Web users in March 2009.
The portal, named “Baidu Elderly Search” in Chinese (s. pic 2), offers more than the empty, Google-style layout of the original Baidu search page (s. pic 1). It features larger fonts and search selections [...]