Home touch

As I am working on a independent living project, I am very interested about other products and service that aim to achieve the same results.

Today I have spotted a new service called 'Home Touch'. It is a system that helps to organise the care of elderly and to keep their lives independent. The page 'how it works' provides a good explanation of the system:
http://www.myhometouch.com/how-it-works/

UICloud – User Interface Design Search Engine | UI Inspiration, UI Elements, GUI Design, Freebies

UICloud – User Interface Design Search Engine | UI Inspiration, UI Elements, GUI Design, Freebies:

'via Blog this'

User experience is strategy, not design : peterme.com

It’s only once we recognize UX as “an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of products and processes” (to borrow Wikipedia’s definition of Total Quality Management) that we appreciate it’s truly massive scale, and how limiting it is for UX to be solely associated with specific (and usually screen-based) design practices.

User experience is strategy, not design : peterme.com

Eldercare social network

Grouple is a social network for eldelcare. The users - which are the old person and the family members - can add events and reminders to the timeline. All the content are labelled under five categories.
It seems a very good and nice project to allow people to get in touch with their families. My only concern is about the user's memory and cognitive abilities. Does relying on an external memory - such as the timeline - allow the user to relax and rely less on the personal memory? Can this be dangerous for the cognitive capabilities of the users (which at every age need to be trained)?


Grouple Guided Tour from Studiohead on Vimeo.

Government Digital Service Design Principles (UK)

It is a draft but interesting to see that finally the UCD principles are more popular than before!

https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples

UXers and Uksers

It is longtime I wanted to write a poster about UX design definition and what to expect from a UX designer.
I found few interesting resources that make the point about it and I'd like to include them in this blog.
Voila':
- The difference between a UX Designer and UI Developer
- Should designers know how to code?
- The elements of User experience
- The Disciplines of User Experience

It is very common to meet "User Experience" specialist/engineer/whatever that never get in touch with the users. They are probably good developers and/or front end specialists. What I think is that: while coding is a good skill for everyone (that's sure), if you code, you don't have the time to get in touch with the users and your Forma Mentis is not set towards the users analysis.
The fact is that UX design is a specific discipline that requires user's analysis, business analysis, design, evaluations and so on.
I labeled the post UXers and Uksers because I think the market is plenty of fake UXers (Uksers).  Dunno why, probably it is cool having UX as job title... but it is not the naming that makes the difference :S
TBC...

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