Posted in Mobile, Usability, User Experience, tagged business, failed, IXDA, LinkedIn, Mobile, privacy, QoS, quality, Usability, User Experience, Video Call, Video Telephony on June 11, 2008 | 20 Comments »
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It was supposed to be the next big thing but it seems to have fizzled out like MMS. It failed in many 3G-enabled countries that deployed it. Gartner’s consumer mobile hype cycle (July 2007) claims that wireless video calling has failed to create any excitement in the mobile industry, with no demand from [...]
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Posted in LBS, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Usability, User Experience, Web, tagged business, location, Mobile, mobile social networking, scenarios, Social Networking, User Experience on May 27, 2008 | 20 Comments »
In a previous post Social Networking and the Mobile Phone, I had discussed how mobile can extend the reach of a social network and open up new ways of socializing. I have gone through a couple of mobile social networks out there and they are nowhere near my expectations. So I decided to list down [...]
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Usability is sometimes contrasted with user experience, and although usability certainly overlaps with user experience, they are not quite the same thing. Usability is a part of the big picture that is overall user experience.
Thomas Baekdal has written a great article where he highlights the difference between the two:
Usability
Usability is about the “ability to use” [...]
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Usability is marginalized in many organizations owing to time constraints, lack of a clear definition, ignorance and more. But the greatest obstacle to usability is that too many decision makers aren’t interested in it. A study of marketing directors by e-consultancy found that most of them had no idea about usability or its importance in ensuring that [...]
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