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An Unseen Interface
Halle Winkler overviews the state of speech technology, examining the opportunities in usability and new forms of usage that become available with speech interfaces in mobile apps.
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Writing Usable APIs in Practice
Giovanni Asproni expands upon the idea that usable APIs help writing clean code.
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Android App Anatomy
Eric Burke discusses: why building visual interfaces, design guidelines for Android apps, and an example.
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Android Protips
Michael Pardo offers tips for creating usable and good looking Android applications: remember the user, make everything easy, be nice to the user, the device and yourself.
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Writing Usable APIs in Practice
Giovanni Asproni presents techniques for writing usable APIs: using user's perspective, naming, the caller should have the control, explicit context, error reporting, logging, organizing.
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Fast, Easy Usability Tricks for Big Product Improvements
Chris Nodder proposes a 5 steps process to improve a product: watch users using it, interpret what they are doing, generate product ideas, turn ideas into design, let users test the design.
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Failure: An Illustrated Guide
Avi Bryant explains the iterative process that led to the concept, implementation, and UI of Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Smalltalk, Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process.
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The Browser as a Platform
Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer present the current status of the browser as a platform and what it takes to be successful: a fast JavaScript engine, using Canvas, thread support, great UI, and others.
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Meeting the Challenge of Simplicity
This session addresses the abstract notion of 'simplicity', why it is critical in modern UI design, and answers questions, like "Why do design processes and good intentions undermine simplicity?"
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Agile Methods and User Centered Design
Dave Robertson and John Johnston explain what the Agile and User Centered Design’s (UCD) common denominators are, common values being the most important one in their opinion.
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