“(…) here are a few short videos showing some of the features of the Tier 2 UI.” – (Extreme Tech) – courtesy of heyblog

“Voice recognition that finally holds up its end of a conversation is revolutionizing customer service. Now the goal is to make natural language the way to find any type of information, anywhere.” – (Wade Roush – MIT Technology Review) – courtesy of nooface

“Yes, this was a ‘business CHI’ – despite, or perhaps because, of all the cross-cultural and emotional ballyhoo. The scientists were not at the front desk, but the designers – designers of enjoyable products, ranging from funny mobile phones and Alessi lemon squeezers to smart and ‘intelligent’ cars. Did they talk about computer programs? I can’t remember…” – (Gerd Waloszek – SAP Design Guild)

“Narrative user interfaces are based on the storytelling paradigm and set out to revolutionize the way people interact with computers. They promise to ultimately make computers accessible for everyone. Today’s graphical user interfaces, even though they have opened the computer to the masses, have reached their limits.” – (Gerd Waloszek – SAP Design Guild)

“Alan took us on a tour of some of the interface marvels of the last 40 years of programming. Using a series of demo films and several pieces of live software to illustrate his points, Kay made a convincing argument that there haven’t been any major innovations in interface design or programming for the last 20 years.” (On Lisa Rein’s Radar) – courtesy of matt jones

“If you do this kind of work,” says interaction designer Gitta Salomon, “everything bugs you. Your car, your cordless phone, your home entertainment system – you hate everything.” (Andrew Orlowski – The Register) – courtesy of kelake

“Posted CHIWEB summaries in roughly chronological order (April 1996 – March 2003 )” (Scott Berkun – UIweb.com)

Alan Kay of HP Labs at the Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Stanford Center for Professional Development) – courtesy of marcus denker

“A key issue he identified in working with products that offered the same or similar content across different media was the recognisability of content in different contexts.” (Ann Light – Usability News)

“This article is a comparison of the UI and usability of several Desktop Environments (DEs), that have been widely used, admired and reviled: Windows XP Luna, BeOS 6 (Dano/Zeta), Mac OS X Aqua and Unix’s KDE and Gnome.” (Eugenia Loli-Queru – OSnews)

“(…) one of the fundamental requirements of any application is that users should be able to interact with the application using only the keyboard.” (HCIRN Tutorials)

“Malacca is the world’s most advanced interface for handhelds, and is based on IML, the Simputer’s XML-based lingua franca.” (PicoPeta Simputers) – courtesy of dmitri ragano

“Forget about the implementation! It is absolutely secondary!” (Yarone D. Goren) – courtesy of webword

“(…) graspable and tangible interfaces are systems relating to the use of physical artifacts as representations and controls for digital information.” (Eva Hornecker) – courtesy of brightly colored food

“Jef Raskin, who helped design Apple’s classic user interface, is working on a new system, THE, that could be a big improvement.” (Alex Salkever – BusinessWeek) – courtesy of nooface

“It’s as if the user interface folks have had their clocks flashing 12:00 for two full decades.” (Fredric Paul – TechWeb)

“In safety-critical systems, a thorough understanding of user needs and goals helps to establish workflows, environments, and behaviors that need to be supported.” (Doug LeMoine – Cooper) – courtesy of cognitive architects

“Because the major problems about disciplines is understanding what the other people’s constraints and motivations are. Psychology is completely different from computer science, because a psychologist wants to understand the world and a computer scientist wants to change it.” (Ann Light – Usability News)

“Getting computers to understand humans the way humans understand humans is a tremendous challenge.” (Technology Research News) – courtesy of lucdesk

“To make computer technology available to a wider audience than has been possible by radically and rationally improving its usability.” (Jeff Raskin)