Posts Tagged ‘ UI ’

Bing Maps TED Talk, Augmented Reality and the Impact on the Travel Industry

Today I saw a video from TED 2010 of Blaise Aguera y Arcas (an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, the architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth) presenting how Bing Maps has begun to integrate augmented reality into the experience.  Really very cool stuff. Watch the video (below) and then meet me for the [ READ MORE ]

Could Touch Finally Pursuade Travel Agents Adopt a New UI Paradigm?

One of the amazing oddities of the travel sector is the lack of adoption by traditional travel agents of modern user interfaces in travel reservation systems. It’s kind of funny that much of the software industry is debating HMTL5 versus Flash while the travel industry is holding onto a user experience that makes me [ READ MORE ]

Business Impact of Usability

In an earlier post I started to talk about the intrinsic value of usability for software products — the satisfaction and value that customers perceive about the product they bought and how it might map to and made the statement that usability should be viewed as important as any other aspect of the product development [ READ MORE ]

Usability is Underappreciated

Maybe it’s because I’m not a true gearhead, but for all the talk about new architectures and business models (which I myself engage in and am excited about) the usability often gets shuttered to the sidelines when talking about enterprise software.  And for the life of me I can’t figure out why.  You can argue [ READ MORE ]

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