This site is about: (1) my professional self, (2) my research into cognition and (3) musings about the intersection of cognition and design.
Jason H. Wong
Basic cognitive research is a necessary component of successful user-centered design. Only through scientific thinking can we make technology intuitive and productive. My goal is to integrate basic research with useful applications.
Application Usability Webcomic
An amusing comic about usability at industry-leading companies like Google and Microsoft versus what most in-house company programmers put out for software (originally from http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/03/05/simplicity/):
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Categories
- animal cognition (1)
- arch lab (2)
- attention (12)
- audition (1)
- automation (2)
- bad design (22)
- clutter (15)
- consciousness (1)
- data visualization (11)
- decision making (4)
- driving (8)
- eye movements (7)
- faces (2)
- good design (18)
- imagery (5)
- interruptions (5)
- language (2)
- marketing (5)
- memory (5)
- mental map (7)
- navigation (3)
- neural network (1)
- neuropsychology (2)
- neuroscience (8)
- perception (20)
- physical ergonomics (7)
- research (16)
- robots (3)
- social (1)
- teaching (1)
- thoughts (13)
- transfer of training (7)
- user testing (11)
- video games (10)
- visual search (3)
Blogroll
Cognitive Daily
- CogDaily's best posts of the year?
- Seeing shapes in two different ways: how and when it happens
- Plunging in to social networking
- Does involving parents really help students learn? Depends on how they're involved
- Casual Fridays: Does having kids enhance or detract from our own childhood memories?
- Dave and Greta speaking at CLT WordCamp tomorrow
- How, exactly, do sad faces affect our ability to count?
- Should you let your toddler/preschooler watch TV? Part II
- Can a blind person whose vision is restored understand what she sees?
- Links for Shireen Campbell's class