HCI User Advocate

Software makers and users often have conflicting goals - with the makers winning. Yet they all too often shoot themselves in the foot by distrusting the users - their customers. Or worse, maltreating them. It is time to get angry about bad and malicious software design. This Blog calls software designers on the carpet - giving them credit and shame where they deserve it.

July 23, 2010

New Windows laptop rant

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From a very experience friend of mine who knows Windows and Mac very well, has worked at Microsoft as a software engineer for several years....
February 17, 2010

SIGCHI Social Impact Award for 2010

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Ben Bederson and Allison Druin from the University of Maryland are awarded The SIGCHI Social Impact Award for 2010 ACM SIGCHI identifies and...
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February 4, 2010

Another problem with Flash - keyboard focus

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I consider Adobe Flash to be a virus and have been thrilled that Apple continues to fight against it. The reason I dislike Flash so much is...
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January 21, 2010

Collaboration with New Super Mario

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I've been playing Mario for a long, long time (i.e., decades). I've been playing it on Wii with my daughters (now 5 and 10) for a y...
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