Focus on the user and all else will follow. From its inception, Google has focused on providing the best user experience possible.

Seth Godin on broken design!

The main reasons why it is so hard to create usable products is that there is a conflict between a high-usability level and great user-experience. You might think this as strange, but there is a important difference between the two.

we are beginning to see some of our wildest dreams slowly emerge from the chaos of high technology and become real. In 2006, it is easy to believe that the masses will soon be able to use a computer without any keyboard or mouse.

Young people entering Higher Education prefer immediate communication, such as mobile phones and synchronous discussions, and there is increasing use of blogs and wikis. All of these create challenges for researchers.

Since a handset is the closest many people will come to owning a personal computer and may be used to accomplish similar tasks as with computers here’s a reasonably plausible handset literacy checklist.

How are your memories of experiences shaped by other people’s recordings of pretty much the same thing? Another great post from Jan Chipchase.

Webwag, another new ajax startpage – releases English version

a online and mobile community dedicated to sharing digital media – focusing on mobile seems clever these days

Let your pictures do the talking – bubble style. Works with Flickr.

Karen Stephenson is the kind of woman who can put you both at ease and at the edge of your seat at the same moment. What she studies is something deeply fundamental to the human experience – trust.

Media futurists have predicted that by 2021, “citizens will produce 50 percent of the news peer-to-peer.” However, mainstream news media have yet to meaningfully adopt or experiment with these new forms.

Someone, please make this guy do something in Copenhagen!