Author Archives: Par Axelsson

Testing Touch

Because technology has so rapidly developed over recent years, hardware has also become more and more portable, forcing software designers to think outside the box and come up with UI solutions outside the regular WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing … More…

Posted in Design, Research, User Experience | Leave a comment

To Eye-track or not to Eye-track?

Advances in eye-tracking have caught many peoples’ attention lately in various blogs, journals and articles. Most eye-tracking hardware utilizes a combination of regular cameras and infrared cameras to measure users’ ocular movement (gaze) as the they look at a screen, … More…

Posted in Research | Leave a comment

I Should be Number 1!

The other day I came across one of these many lists ranking the 10 most promising professions for 2010 and although Design researcher, Interaction designer or Visual designer was not directly on the list, I did find a few professions on the list that certainly made our future at projekt202 look pretty bright. On most of the lists, number 2, 3 and/or 4 was Computer software engineer or Software Analyst, which is probably not a surprise to anybody since pretty much everything nowadays involves a computer or piece of code in one way or another. However, the upswing on this is that everyone knows that these people also need a designer like us at p202 to make their creations user friendly through some amazing User Interfaces (UI). More…

Posted in Diversions, User Experience | Leave a comment