http://www.montparnas.com/articles Articles on effective experience design, product strategy, and usability. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:49:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To much fanfare and critical acclaim, TiVo announced last week its new Premiere DVR that features a ground-breaking user interface. I'm very happy to say that we had the privilege to work alongside TiVo's talented design team to define and design the novel user experience that extends TiVo's high interaction ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/montparnas-helps-design-tivos-revolutionary-ui/ Watching the winter Olympics this year, I took note of the great use of information overlays by NBC. Overall I have been impressed with their sparing use of graphics to convey the critical information. I hope that this simple elegant design will be the standard rather than the exception in ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/nbc-winter-olympics-information-displays/ Nokia has started circulating specifications and previews of its new Symbian^4 OS interface and interaction design (via Symbian.org). Some notable improvements include: New interface layout and interaction structure (see diagrams below) Consistent look and feel across all applications Contextual menus providing quicker access to common actions Customizable home screen New Interaction Models in Symbian^4 Below are ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/preview-of-nokias-new-symbian-4-os/ [caption id="attachment_1044" align="aligncenter" width="596" caption="iPhone's Big Problem (created on pixton.com)"][/caption] http://www.montparnas.com/articles/iphones-one-big-problem/ I had the opportunity to speak with Netvibes' CEO, Freddy Mini, as a follow-up to our original article on the company's RSS reader. In our interview, we mainly discussed the strategy and vision for the product—who are the customer segments, how Netvibes meets their needs, where the product has been ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/interview-with-netvibes-ceo-freddy-mini/ Today is World Usability Day. Don't forget to get involved and see the events happening near you. For Boston, there are a series of events at South Station, titled "Connecting the Dots" In San Francisco, check out: Design Matters: An Open House to Celebrate World Usability Day And of course, please do comment/share ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/designing-for-a-sustainable-world-world-usability-today/ In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I explored synergies that exist between product development and user experience design as well as how the two fields fail to leverage those synergies in the product development process. In this part, I explain what product development and user experience teams ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/toward-an-integrated-approach-to-product-strategy-and-design-part-3-of-3/ Jim Ross posted an excellent article on UX Matters describing the good and bad of eye tracking studies, entitled Eyetracking: Is It Worth It. Ross clearly itemizes the positives and negatives, expelling myths about eyetracking's ability to answer all issues and expose full meaning of the user's actions [caption id="" align="alignright" ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/eyetracking-is-it-worth-it/ In part 1 of this series, I explored synergies between product development and user experience design. In this part, I write about how product development and user experience design teams fail to collaborate effectively. How Product Development and User Experience Design Fail to Work Well Together As described above, there are many ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/toward-an-integrated-approach-to-product-strategy-and-design-part-2-of-3/ Product development and user experience design are two fields that should, but rarely, collaborate effectively to design and define products that consumers will find delightful to use. There exist many natural synergies between the two disciplines, and each field's strengths complement the other's weaknesses. Despite this, product development and user ... http://www.montparnas.com/articles/toward-an-integrated-approach-to-product-strategy-and-design-part-1-of-3/