Marketing UI Research Paper: Some Love From ToCHI

Posted by Zachary Lym in Ubiquity, summer09 on 19. May, 2010 | No Comments

One vote for, one  vote in the middle, and one vote against publication.  Essentially, they wanted more formal psych study about video and learning which requires a different kind of statistical validity than what usability provides.  My error was writing this like a psych study (which I have written before) and not like a usability [...]

Got my paper back from the editor

Posted by Zachary Lym in Personal, Ubiquity, summer09 on 22. Nov, 2009 | 1 Comment

Every page looks like this.  That’s what paying for editorial help gets you: real advice.

Sessions 6, 7, 8, & 9

Sessions 6, 7, 8, & 9

Posted by Zachary Lym in Ubiquity, summer09 on 11. Oct, 2009 | No Comments

Despite my best efforts on the documentation front, users still failed to grasp the simplistic syntax scheme of Ubiquity. I suspected this was due to poor contextual “documentation.”  So I designed an experiment testing out a simpler skin.

Sessions 4 & 5

Posted by Zachary Lym in Ubiquity, summer09 on 05. Sep, 2009 | 2 Comments

Couple more sessions using the new translate commercial. In short:

• Users are unable to tell the difference between the two video clips, so slight differences are a no no.
• Users still see Ubiquity as command specific as apposed to a generalized command framework.

Learning Ubiq P1: Minimalist Documentation

Learning Ubiq P1: Minimalist Documentation

Posted by Zachary Lym in Ubiquity, summer09 on 13. Jul, 2009 | 1 Comment

Today I am going to talk about a typical users, how they learn, and the principals of minimalist documentation. If you want to skip the fluff, head to the minimalist style guidelines for Ubiquity’s documentation.


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