Two weeks ago Steve Jobs announced “the world’s thinnest notebook”, the Macbook Air and of course we all loved it.

The one thing I admire the most on the brand new Macbook Air is its trackpad. As you may know the Macbook Air comes with an extreme trackpad where you can perform a variety of finger gestures like those in iPhone. Obviously, such features not only bring trackpads to […]

My adaption process in Cyprus was smoother than I expected. After three weeks home, I feel like that I never left Cyprus despite the fact that I still get frustrated with some things. A great example of these, are ATMs which their operational mechanism has been altered recently.

In fact, some ATMs provide your money first and then your credit card which I find very […]

It is well known that developers and users view the same application from two different perspectives. In most of the cases these perspectives are completely opposite! Developers and designers are aware of the application and have a great knowledge of how it works which helps them understand better(?) and differently the interaction environment.

A great example of this phenomenon is something that I like to call “the paradox of the broken […]

Two decades ago Don Norman wrote a classic book on Human-Computer Interaction titled “The design of everyday things“. In his book, Norman stengthens and supports the significance of usability in everyday things like doors and taps. All of you who are not familiar with the book or its author you may laugh… “how difficult is to open a door?” you may wonder! Well, a brief read of just […]

Yesterday, my fiancee received a bunch of emails, each one had attached at least two digital photographs — her class had a party the other day. As a consequence the limited quota of university web-mail (50MB) was exceeded! Where is the problem, you may wonder?

After saving all the photographs on her disk, she tried to delete all those emails. But unfortunately her intentions came to a halt, when she received […]