Author Archives: Louise Hewitt

Sussex students tackle the eBook issue

March 2, 2009 – 4:24 pm

Undergraduate students at the University of Sussex are engaging with one of the biggest issues in digital publishing today: eBooks.
The students’ first year Human Computer Interaction (HCI) module asks them to design an “electronic document shopping system” that could enable book publishers to create a unique environment dedicated to the marketing and sale of electronic-only [...]

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Spot the deliberate mistakes …

February 6, 2009 – 9:55 am

Hurray! The 2009 edition of NetLife Research’s legendary Bad Usability Calendar is here.

Each year, the team uses the calendar to illustrate ’stoopid’ interface choices, from distracting mashups to meaningless metaphors.
Great for cubicle walls.

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Some thoughts on the Carter Report

February 2, 2009 – 4:56 pm

Last month saw the publication of the interim Digital Britain report from UK Minister for Communications Stephen Carter and his team. Most of the headlines have focused on the ‘2MB for all by 2012′ promise, but the report raises other issues for digital publishing.
National high-speed broadband access is likely to be a reality if not [...]

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Faceted navigation: the four big challenges

January 22, 2009 – 2:59 pm

Faceted navigation is an elegant and popular solution to the needle-in-a-haystack job of finding the information you want on big sites, and one that is widely used in digital publishing interfaces.
A facet is one feature of something that has many aspects. For example a facet of a car might be its colour, its engine size, [...]

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