Bridging the gap between Developers & Designers to improve user experience

Every third Wed this coming meeting is Wed, July 21st at 7:00 – 8:30pm at Aquent Office in Seattle. Free parking after 6:00 pm. Meeting in the lobby and look for our great new Sign. If you get lost call David at : 206.653.5143.  Our meetings are always free.

This month is our first in our IxDA/Interact Summer Series beyond touch with Steve Seow talking about:  Touch and Beyond: Some things change and some things don’t. The psychology of future interactions.(http://www.stevenseow.com/ )
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Abstract:
Some things change, and some things don’t. At Microsoft Surface, we have tested hundreds of users with countless design explorations and prototypes over the years. The design, the interaction model, the software and hardware technologies, and even the business have unavoidably and necessarily evolved, but in this dynamic multidimensional evolution, one factor stood as a constant—the psychology behind the core user interaction. We’ve pooled together years of quantitative and qualitative data, observation notes, and other information and distilled them down to a set of nine constants we called Surface Usability Maxims. These are what we believe hold true not just for Microsoft Surface and for touch computing, but also for any new interaction paradigm that may emerge in the future because… well, some things change, and some things don’t.

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