The Pentagon has announced the latest round of grants in its Minerva program, which funds social research in areas of ’strategic importance’.
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Academic research ethics
19-Feb-09Usability and enterprise systems
09-Feb-09Writing in UX Matters, Paul J Sherman challenges businesses to include usability in their IT selection process:
“Enterprise software products are complex, powerful tools. Their complexity is one of the reasons businesses sometimes fail to fully realize the expected return on investment from these products.
“For enterprise employees, who must use these enterprise applications, this complexity poses [...]
The least you can do for usability
02-Feb-09In the video below, usability advocate Steve “Don’t Make Me Think” Krug talks about the least you can do to make a web site or application usable. He gives an overview of usability theory, then conducts a live demonstration of a usability-testing session. (hat-tip to the IA-TV blog)
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Social media research and analytics
26-Jan-09Remember the spaghetti cat? Flipping the switch on the Large Hadron Collider? Their online popularity has earned them a place in the Internet Meme Timeline, which charts pop-culture high points on the Internet since 1970. Of course, the timeline includes a marker in 1976 for “meme,” the word coined by geneticist Richard Dawkins to describe [...]
Business processes
12-Jan-09As I ponder the manyseveral challenges of a current project — which aims to convert “80 per cent of all our forms into machine-readable format” — this Wondermark cartoon reminds me that forms are only one small part of any business process or transaction.
Similarly, the Dilbert strip for 21 December 2008 has a particular resonance [...]