Archive for June, 2006

50% of returned electronics work as designed

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Discovered on GUUUI.com: a Dutch research reveils that 50% of all returned electronic devices claimed to be malfunctioning, is not due to a malfunction, but to bad usability. According to Den Ouden most of the flaws found their origin in the first phase of the design process: product definition.

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SIGCHI.nl 2006 conference

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Today, my colleagues Annelies, Gert, Pascal and I attended the annual conference of SIGCHI.nl, who seized the opportunity to announce its new name: Chi Nederland.

The conference was held in the beautiful Tuschinski theater in Amsterdam. This year’s theme: “The Web and Beyond” (or in short: Web 2.0*). An impressive 650 (roughly) people were present, a record for this conference. (more…)

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