Author Archives: Elizabeth Buie
12 July 2011
My Comment to the White House on Federal Websites
Today at 4pm EDT (I’m writing this about 5-6 hours earlier) the White House will have a live chat on improving Federal websites. I plan to be there.
I put in a comment via the form at whitehouse.gov. Here’s essentially* what I said:
The problem is not so much the number of Federal domains (although I agree [...]
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at 9 February 2011
Mobile boarding pass: Not for me, thanks
Yesterday I used a mobile boarding pass for the first time. United Airlines’ checkin didn’t make me choose between mobile and paper, so I chose both — it wasn’t a risk to try mobile because I would have the paper as a backup, just in case.
I clicked “Mobile” and had it sent to my phone [...]
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at 8 October 2010
A Seminar and a Panelist Statement
I recently participated in a Dagstuhl seminar called “Demarcating User eXperience”. This 2.5-day workshop brought together 30 UX researchers and practitioners into an Eighteenth-Century manor house cum computer science conference center, just outside a tiny German village, to define the boundaries of the field of UX and begin writing a white paper about it. The [...]
at 6 June 2010
ATAC’s new in-bus displays: A step forward, but more is needed
Rome’s public transportation system, known as ATAC (Azienda Tranvie ed Autobus del Comune di Roma), continues to improve in the 20+ years since my first visit to this wonderful city. For example, some of the bus stops now have signs indicating when the next bus is expected to arrive (see the article in L’Occhio – [...]
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21 July 2011
Chromostereopsis in UX Design: A blog entry for comments