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Archives for March, 2012


Best UI for a System? Eliminating the Need to Use the System

by Craig Roth  |  March 28, 2012  |  Comments Off

I wrote back in January about the Attentional Experience, a specific slice of the broader User Experience concept that focuses on how a system helps users notice important information or push less important information back.  A good user experience design should do this, but it’s hard to think outside the box when the box you’re [...]

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Got My Productivity-Enhancing Mobile Device. Now Where Am I Supposed to Use it?

by Craig Roth  |  March 8, 2012  |  3 Comments

A lot has been written about the importance of supporting an increasingly mobile workforce, specifically the kind that works off mobile devices while on the move.  Well, I’m working from Starbucks this morning to enjoy the rapid response, creativity, convenience, and productivity boost that we are told will result.  One enabler of mobile work is [...]

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Email Overload on Three Levels

by Craig Roth  |  March 6, 2012  |  1 Comment

I found a recent Harvard Business Review blog post on email overload to be fascinating and instructional on three levels: what it actually says, what everyone else commented, and the similarity of comments on any email overload thread. Starting at the basic level, the content of the article itself is fine.  It points to many [...]

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