Software and website usability is not simply a matter of ease of use.  In my essay Three Factors of Usability: Understanding Ease of Use, I show how designers and developers can think more broadly about user interfaces and user experiences.

Read the essay here

I have two dreams in life – fly a starship and play in a holodeck.  The best part is, if the holodeck gets invented first, who needs the starship. A company called Eon Reality has developed at pretty early holodeck-like environment.  The Eon ICube is basically a high-tech PC with 3-6 wall-sized monitors projecting everything from fully immersive 3D environments to the coolest spreadsheets you’ve ever seen.  The user wears glasses and various peripherals for force feedback and a wireless want for control (you can only walk so far, the walls don’t move).  What kind of games/software do you want to play first in the ICube? Just give me my starship…

[Via GameSetWatch]