Posts Tagged ‘usability’

Accessibility in e-learning

30, Aug 2009

A recent US Department of Education report concluded that “on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction”. In the New York Times analysis of the report, Steve Lohr said:
Until fairly recently, online education amounted to little more than electronic versions of the old-line correspondence courses. That has changed with [...]

New look

23, Aug 2009

Regular visitors will notice the site no longer looks as it did. I changed the theme out of necessity, as anyone who clicked on a tag from the cloud on the sidebar would only see the last three posts with that tag, with no option to see older posts. As a result, my older posts [...]

First look: Word 2010

7, Aug 2009

I installed the Technical Preview of Office 2010 today. Having been impressed with the improvements in 2007 over 2003, I was looking forward to seeing what the new version had to offer. Obviously, one of the big selling points will be the online functionality – I love Google Apps, but there are some shortcomings… restrictions [...]

Expectations & user interface design

2, Aug 2009

The Human Oriented Technology Lab at Carleton University’s website reads “As technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and pervasive in people’s lives it is important to foster research and innovation that remains closely linked with the needs, wants and capabilities of people.”
Sure, but whose needs, wants and capabilities were taken in to account before now?
For decades, gadgets [...]


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