Ergonomie, Usabilité, utilisabilité, UX, User experience, IHM, GUI, interface, usages

For this Mobile Mondays post we’ve invited Netbiscuits to offer you best practices and tips for creating a good mobile experience for your users.  Netbiscuits is a leading cloud platform for the development and delivery of next generation web apps across all mobile devices and connected platforms. Cultivating a user-focused mobile experience isn’t just about shrinking your existing website to fit a mobile screen. In a single day, a connected consumer interacts with your brand and consumes (...)

“L’ergonomie n’est plus négociable aujourd’hui”. OCTO Technology L’aspect incontournable de la performance Il existe une conviction partagée chez les grands du Web : la performance perçue par l’utilisateur est critique. Cette performance a en effet un impact direct sur l’adoption du service et son utilisation dans la durée. Et le ressenti utilisateur est directement lié à la rapidité d’affichage des interfaces. Le grand public se moque bien de l’architecture logicielle, de la puissance des serveurs, de (...)

Webmaster Level: Intermediate / Advanced We love data, and spend a lot of time monitoring the analytics on our websites. Any web developer doing the same will have noticed the increase in traffic from mobile devices of late. Over the past year we’ve seen many key sites garner a significant percentage of pageviews from smartphones and tablets. These represent large numbers of visitors, with sophisticated browsers which support the latest HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but which also have (...)

Most developers, including myself, are natural tinkerers. We hear of a new technology and want to try it out, exploring what it can do, dream up interesting uses, and pushing the limits of what’s possible. Most recently, the Channel 9 team incorporated Kinect for Windows into two projects: BoxingBots, and Project Detroit. The life-sized BoxingBots made their debut in early March at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Each robot is equipped with an on-board computer, which receives commands from two (...)

Photo credit Tony Buser from Flickr (links below) Ever since Microsoft Research showed off the extremely impressive KinectFusion demo and shortly after published its research findings, developers have been trying hard to replicate the mad science to give more people the ability to turn everyday objects into 3D models with just a Kinect sensor. Today Greg Duncan on Channel9′s Coding4Fun posted a video to ReconstructMe, one of the better implementations of such a third-party software that (...)