Tag Archives: design

kid’s-eye view of laptop design

Some 2nd and 3rd graders in a “mini-laptop club” sketched out laptop keyboards on construction paper and pretended to email each other (ref). How cute! The keyboard layout is interesting to observe—big emphasis on pets, entertainment, and shopping. I love the *huge* open and close buttons! Maybe designers should take some advice from these kids [...]

thinkature

For the past 5 weeks, I’ve spent a significant portion of my time at work (at PARC) browsing web sites, services, and technologies that facilitate some aspect of the information discovery, organization, and sharing process. Finally, we’re settling on an user study where we will record user’s browsing activity from their home computers. Clearly this [...]