From the category archives:

cognition

Google as Distributed Cognition

06.29.2009

I recently discovered UXpod which features an excellent interview with Google’s User Experience Research Manager, Patrick Larvie. Hearing his story and research approach I can see how Google has been able to move use of the Internet forward in so many ways. Not to give him more credit than he deserves for what happens there, [...]

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the mathematics of upgrading

06.18.2009

At 37signals Jason Zimdars presents an issues with their Basecamp account upgrade screen as a “math problem.” Putting aside the fact that many educators wouldn’t necessarily think that a math problem a bad thing, it is a rather provocative way to describe an interface issue. In some ways the math doesn’t really go away with [...]

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