Imagine my amusement this week when the characters of Howard Tayler’s excellent Schlock Mercenary comic discovered a new word.
Nice one, Howard!
Tags: neologisms, Schlock Mercenary, plethaurus, vocabulary
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The Pentagon has announced the latest round of grants in its Minerva program, which funds social research in areas of ’strategic importance’.
Tags: research, ethics
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Writing 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 [...]
In 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)
Tags: Steve Krug
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Remember 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 [...]