EU’s “right to be forgotten” and its benefits — EU’s “right to be forgotten” What is the EU right to be forgotten? Well, when there is outdated information or information you don’t want to be seen online, there currently isn’t a way to remove that from search queries on Google. …

How do companies determine you’re qualified for the job? — In Don Peck’s piece They’re Watching You at Work, he discusses how not only workers in the companies, but in other companies are constantly monitored. …

They’re insane — In Morville and Rosenfeld’s book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, they discuss basic schemes on can use to organize information. There are two general groups to these basic schemes — exact organization schemes and ambiguous organization schemes. Exact Organization Schemes Alphabetical — The alphabetical scheme basically organizes information alphabetically, which is…

Why we might not be as safe as we think — In the famous post by Mat Honan, How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking, he talks about the critical system design and operational flaws that multiple companies had, and how combining those vulnerabilities can lead to devastating results for the users. Apple and Amazon Apple is known to produce…

Making UI great again — User interface is the means by the user interacts with the computer, which has proven to be one of the most important aspects of innovative products. Without good user interface, there will be no good user experience, causing the product to be inefficient. That being said, what makes good user…

How Disney MagicBand’s invisible technology makes it seem magical — “It’s like magic!”. Unlike decades prior, technology today has become much smaller, even invisible at times. Disney’s magical wristband is a prime example of that. …

User research methods, dangers created from user personas — In today’s world, design is everything. The technology and intelligence behind the product is nothing but worthless if the design is lacking. To design an appealing product, one must take into account the representative users and their context — their natural environment. These include “the physical environment, mental model, habits…

It isn’t someone in a black turtleneck making already-designed products look more pretty — Apple is the most valuable company today. Why is that? While most would argue that it is due to their spectacular design thinking, the majority of them don’t actually understand what design thinking is beyond its looks. The original iPhone was a huge deal Though it is true that attractive design lures customers in, user-centered designs goes…

One word, three definitions — In the article Information as Thing, Michael K. Buckland tackles the challenge of defining the term “information”. When a word is as ambiguous as “information”, giving it a concrete definition can make the meaning seem unsatisfactory and unfair to the other possible interpretations. …