Daniel Szuc
About: Daniel is currently the Principal Usability Consultant with Apogee Usability Asia Ltd. - - a Hong Kong-based usability Company. Daniel has spoken on Usability in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, US and Japan. He co-wrote "The Usability Kit" with Gerry Gaffney. He is a founding member and President of the UPA China - Hong Kong branch, Director on the UPA Board and holds a BS in Information Management from Melbourne University Australia.
Discussions
Wonderful
--Congratulations to the IxDA team for a wonderful conference! Looking forward to the Sunday program.
Blog Posts
Daniel Szuc on UX in China
--In this show I had the great pleasure of chatting with Daniel Szuc from Apogee in Hong Kong, China.
Thinking About The Cultural Difference From The User's Point of View - User Friendly 2008 Report
--Thinking About The Cultural Difference From The User's Point of View - User Friendly 2008 Report
The Power of Field Studies
--Understanding how users truly interact with software products is difficult unless you visit users in the field like their home or workplace. Ther...
Selling UX
--At some point in your career, you’ll be called upon to sell UX to someone in your organization. You’ve probably already done it. Perhaps you’ll nee...
Registration - Last chance for first impressions
--Registration is often the first real interaction that a user has with an organisation. Perhaps they've browsed a few pages, or they've seen adverti...
Six techniques for advocating design in your organization
--This article discusses some techniques to help overcome challenges incorporating design into your product development process.
Bookmarks:
The customer is in charge
We are, of course, much more emotional than we are rational. Our emotions are hugely powerful and allow us to navigate through life. They are as important to decision-making as a sail is to a ship. But when we give our emotions too much rein they can lead us into deep and treacherous waters, as the current financial crisis certainly shows.
Google Chrome Browser To Support Customization -- Google Chrome -- InformationWeek
Google did not set a timetable for releasing an extension system for Chrome, but the design documentation for Chromium developers indicates the search engine has already started to work on the technology.
Nokia Announces Chunky, Full-Featured N97 'Cellphone' | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
On paper, it's a solid iPhone-beater. In fact, it should probably come with a dirty white undershirt and half a bottle of whiskey. The camera is a Zeiss lens equipped 5MP model with an LED flash and a video mode, the phone sports a huge 32GB of memory, boost-able to 48GB with microSD cards, 3G comes in HSDPA flavor and there is Wi-Fi in the shape of 802.11b and g.
Nokia does it all too | The Australian
It will also let users customise their phones - even their home screen - with small applications called widgets. The programs, which will run off the web rather than having to be installed on the device, could include news feeds, weather updates, games and tie-ins to social-networking applications such as Facebook.
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The future of design in India does not lie in the hands of designers, but in the expectations of a billion people.' The points and others make is that there are at least two Indias that are set to make very different, but ever-growing demand on India's design creatives capabilities. One India is the much-vaunted success story, with a 9.2 per cent annual rise in GDP, a middle class numbering a quarter of a billion, 45 million graduates in 2007 and a 20 fold growth in US patents in the same year.
Usability testing isn’t all about the user | cxpartners
In our office we have a two room set up that allows the clients to view in a light and comfortable room that’s video linked to our testing room. Clients can discuss the tests and come up with ideas without fear of being heard.
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Comments
Hi Daniel. Just wanted to drop you an 'ello from another person coming from outside the U.S. Hope your jet lag is not too bad. Hopefully we'll get a chance to chat about the industry worldwide.