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Users 1: - Apple's guidelines for performing usability studies.
- Users
2: - Speech is a very different sort of user interface (Ben Schneiderman
article from CACM).
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Design 1: Don Norman's Information Appliance manifesto
- (sorry, hard copy in the library only). Chapter 1 from "The Invisible Computer," on how Thomas Edison never quite got it.
- Design
2: - The Palm Pilot story. A rambling interview with Jeff Hawkins, its
founder, and a more focussed interview (copies in the Library) with Rob Haitani,
the UI designer. All three (including Donna Dubinsky, the president) subsequently
developed Handspring.
- Users 3:
Low-Fi Prototyping (aimed at user interface development on the PC/Web
screen, but perfectly appropriate for our efforts).
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Design 3: The Olympic Messaging System, deployed at the 1984 Olympic
Games in LA in 12 languages. They got it right, finally, made heavy use of
user evaluation and iteration. And it wasn't their first such system.
- Users 4: A
rant from the Wireless Reporter on how a $20 Sony gadget completely misses
its intended set of customers. Do you agree?