Reflexión sobre los elementos que determinan que el diseño de interacción es una práctica cultural

La reflexión que hace Janet H. Murray en el primer capítulo del libro Inventing the medium : Principles of interaction design as a cultural practice (2011) resulta muy acertada. Habla de la creación de nuevos affordances (que podríamos traducir como capacidad, pero cuyo significado se describe en el mundo del diseño de interacción como la posibilidad de acción de un objetivo, es decir, las posibles formas de interaccionar con el objeto) para medios digitales. 

The effect of privacy choice in cookie notices on consumers’ perceived fairness of frequent price changes

Recent regulatory changes (i.e., General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union) enforce that seller (e.g., retail and service) and all other websites disclose through cookie notices which data they collect and store. At the same time, websites must allow consumers to disagree to the tracking of their browsing behavior. Despite sellers' concern about the … Sigue leyendo The effect of privacy choice in cookie notices on consumers’ perceived fairness of frequent price changes

Market Shares Are Not Zipf-Distributed

The distribution of market shares within an industry is a relevant performance measure for managers and policy makers, allowing the determination of whether a given industry is competitive or not. Usually, the perfect competition model is the reference to judge the efficiency of markets. However, there are empirical studies that show that one of the … Sigue leyendo Market Shares Are Not Zipf-Distributed

Design; Beauty and User Satisfaction

This study was about the relationship between product aesthetics and user satisfaction in some of user based design methods (UCD, KE, UX, and PD). Also we tried to know how beauty will appear in the product and perceived by users, and how can beauty result in user satisfaction by mentioned methods. So, we introduced some … Sigue leyendo Design; Beauty and User Satisfaction