User Experience è una rivista trimestrale della Usability Professionals’ Association (l’iscrizione sono 100 USD) ed il suo ultimo numero è dedicato all’usabilità nel trasporto. Ecco alcuni dei titoli degli articoli presenti e di cui potete trovare degli astratti online:

Taxi: Service Design for New York’s yellow cabs

By Rachel Abrams

Safer Skies: Usability at the Federal Aviation Administration

By Ferne Friedman-Berg, Ph.D, Kenneth Allendoerfer, Carolina Zingale, Ph.D, Todd Truitt, Ph.D.

Listen Up: Do voice recognition systems help drivers focus on the road?

By David G. Kidd, M. A., David M. Cades, M. A., Don J. Horvath, M. A., Stephen M. Jones, M. A., Matthew J. Pitone, M. A., Christopher A. Monk, Ph. D.

Get Your Bearings: User perspective in map design

By Thomase Porathe

Lost in Space: Holistic wayfinding design in public spaces

By Dr. Christopher Kueh

A Really Smart Card: How Hong Kong’s Octopus Card moves people

By Daniel Szuc

Recommendations on Recommendations: Making usability usable

By Rolf Molich, Kasper Hornbæk, Steve Krug, Josephine Scott and Jeff Johnson

Disclosure: il mio collega Michele Visciola fa parte del consiglio editoriale di questa rivista.

Interactions è la pubblicazione bimensile di ACM. Con un design migliore di quello di User Experience, è diventata sotto la premurosa guida di Richard Anderson e Jon Kolko, sia profonda nelle sue analisi che ampia nei suoi interessi. Per 55 USD per sei numeri, è anche un affare.

Ecco gli ultimi articoli, alcuni dei quali potete anche trovare online:

Designing Games: Why and How

Sus Lundgren

An Evolving Map of Design Practice and Design Research

Liz Sanders

Signifiers, Not Affordances

Don Norman

User Experience Design for Ubiquitous Computing

Mike Kuniavsky

Cultural Theory and Design: Identifying Trends by Looking at the Action in the Periphery

Christine Satchell

Understanding Children’s Interactions: Evaluating Children’s Interactive Products

Janet C. Read, Panos Markopoulos

An Exciting Interface Foray into Early Digital Music: The Kurzweil 250

Richard W. Pew

Some Different Approaches to Making Stuff

Steve Portigal

Design: A Better Path to Innovation

Nathan Shedroff

A Call for Pro-Environmental Conspicuous Consumption in the Online World

Bill Tomlinson

Of Candied Herbs and Happy Babies: Seeking and Searching on Your Own Terms

Elizabeth Churchill

Experiencing the International Children’s Digital Library

Benjamin B. Bederson

Taken For Granted: The Infusion of the Mobile Phone in Society

Rich Ling

How Society was Forever Changed: A Review of The Mobile Connection

Brian Romanko

Audiophoto Narratives for Semi-literate Communities

David Frohlich, Matt Jones

Think Before You Link: Controlling Ubiquitous Availability

Karen Renaud, Judith Ramsay, Mario Hair

Disclosure: Entro il prossimo anno, diventerò redattore della rivista (e mi sento onorato di essere in così stimata compagnia).