PC or TV? - The Vision Is Compromised

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In order to clinch the all-important blessing of the BigBank board to progress from the feasibility study to the project proper, however, the project champions found themselves having to retreat on some of the original plans which left the project having to grapple with significant technical legacy issues.
First, because of the fundamental importance of the […]

Politics of Persuasion: The Use of Prototyping to Engender Ownershipbusiness, w3c, design, technolo

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The PastScape project was born as part of a response to the great changes, in the way ICT is increasingly being used and viewed, that have occurred recently in all areas of modern western society. When the idea of a novel ICT project was first conceived in 1996, the Internet, World Wide Web (the web), […]

Progress in Usability: Achieving Clarity and Focus

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By focusing on specific faults and their solutions, a certain amount of progress was made. Visual appeal, site and page level branding were improved, and all partners were in general agreement about the direction and purpose of the site. Originally it had not been clear at whom the Rural Net site was aimed. The use […]

What Can Our Systems Do?

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We needed to have a clear understanding of what technologies were available to us and to our users.
The first thing that our usability engineers did was to create expectations of their own. These expectations included what deliverables they would be providing and how long each would take to create. The so-called “User Centred Design Team” […]

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