Another Weblog about location based services

Common Principles: A Usable Interface Design Primer
The transparent interface is commonly defined as one that maximizes user task completion and minimizes interfering factors, such as unnecessary interface complexity or performance.

User-Centered Design
An interview with Peter Merholz and Nathan Shedroff on User-Centered Design dealing with the topics understanding UCD, the business of UCD and the Process of UCD.

usabilityviews
Chris Mc Evoy launched a site unveiling the page views of top usability sites & docs. Due to Chris Usability has grown into a monster - and therefore Usability (or what is commonly understood as usability) must die…So you can check out Usability Must Die .

York Usability Research
Conventional usability considers one user with one computer system in a work context. This is no longer enough. As computers are moving out of the office, into the street and the home, the design issues that arise become much broader. York Usability Research are extending this viewpoint, under the following themes:
* computer-mediated and video communication;
* the user experience;
* enjoyment and fun;
* technology in the home;
* dependable human-computer systems;
* personalisation and personification.