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11 months ago
in Usability consultants have golden opportunities in Second Life on Torley Lives
This is a massively important point (or series of points) and a massive challenge for virtual worlds where the marriage of game and software user interfaces combined with mashable user generated content leads to the "fruit salad" effect of features and content of all shapes and sizes conflicting to destroy the user experience.
This will become ever more crucial as open transport protocols enable transit between different VWs and users will have to navigate between different UIs and display layers.
Add to this accessibility which truly is a lost horizon in this field and we have, yes, a potential goldmine for usability and accessibility experts.
But before we drown under a deluge of overcharging and over here consultants auditing us to death, let's remember two important points:
1. Usability is rooted in standards and standards should be rooted in common sense. The first victory will be the establishment of Metaverse usability standards - good start in this post Torley!
2. Usability is in itself an accessibility issue. usability as ultimately an accessibility issue – bad usability makes a product inaccessible to even normally abled users and leads to a “useless” human experience. We’ve all been there.
Bearing these two points in mind and reacting intelligently to them will create a virtuous circle of good practice along a standards model, much like what's gradually happened on the web in the last 10 years. Fingers crossed!
Thanks for this post Torley and *wave* we never talk no more
Kei x
This will become ever more crucial as open transport protocols enable transit between different VWs and users will have to navigate between different UIs and display layers.
Add to this accessibility which truly is a lost horizon in this field and we have, yes, a potential goldmine for usability and accessibility experts.
But before we drown under a deluge of overcharging and over here consultants auditing us to death, let's remember two important points:
1. Usability is rooted in standards and standards should be rooted in common sense. The first victory will be the establishment of Metaverse usability standards - good start in this post Torley!
2. Usability is in itself an accessibility issue. usability as ultimately an accessibility issue – bad usability makes a product inaccessible to even normally abled users and leads to a “useless” human experience. We’ve all been there.
Bearing these two points in mind and reacting intelligently to them will create a virtuous circle of good practice along a standards model, much like what's gradually happened on the web in the last 10 years. Fingers crossed!
Thanks for this post Torley and *wave* we never talk no more
Kei x
2 years ago
in A couple of the best mashups I've ever heard on Torley Lives
One of my favourite podcasts is the Radio Clash podcast. Some real mashup treats unearthed weekly by the very amusing Tim, from my very own London Town.
http://www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/subscribe-t...
http://www.mutantpop.net/radioclash/subscribe-t...
2 years ago
in Fun with Dynamic Reflections on Torley Lives
This is welcome news. Now I can have a grimy mirror in the washroom of my scuzzy rock bar.
2 years ago
in The best advice I can give you today on Torley Lives
> Now you made me cross post :p
Better than cross dressing I suppose. Or is it??
Hmm. Gravatar.com still borked
Better than cross dressing I suppose. Or is it??
Hmm. Gravatar.com still borked
2 years ago
in The best advice I can give you today on Torley Lives
How else can one live without regret.
Happy for your happiness Torley
xx
darn. Now you made me cross post :p
Happy for your happiness Torley
xx
darn. Now you made me cross post :p
2 years ago
in Much ado about YouTube on Torley Lives
Like a lot of social things YouTube's greatest asset is the community and the huge volume of content they provide. But it is a fugly website, I agree, incosnsistently designed, frustrating to use, badly cached and often borked. Bit like MySpace, which still I feel obliged to use as a musician.
Have you seen this? http://tubularapp.com/blog/ It looks very interesting (I know you don't have a Mac) but it's an attempt to impose a different UI layer on the YouTube content.
Have you seen this? http://tubularapp.com/blog/ It looks very interesting (I know you don't have a Mac) but it's an attempt to impose a different UI layer on the YouTube content.
2 years ago
in Profile Blogging! on Baba Sucks
OMG I want one!!! I suppose it only works in WordPress. Kx
2 years ago
in Amazing Pie on Baba Sucks
Interesting. That seems to offer good affordance while removing the friction of the two level system we have now. Maybe you should apply for the UI Architect job they're advertising :)
I too hope that the plans to open up the UI will lead to us being able to pimp the client like this
I too hope that the plans to open up the UI will lead to us being able to pimp the client like this
