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Skeuomorphism
Friday, February 15th, 2013
This entry is part 24 of 26 in the series WordsSkeuomorphism has been around for a long time. Architects including Frank Lloyd Wright have eschewed it. Alan Cooper, known as one of the founding fathers of user interaction design for computer systems, decried it in the first edition of his classic text, About Face: Essentials [...]
Ignore
Monday, December 12th, 2011
This entry is part 14 of 26 in the series WordsNo, I’m not talking about a system error message like Windows’ infamous “Abort, Retry, Fail?” I’m talking about active cognitive ignoring. This occurred to me as I’ve been using an electronic medical record system called DocuTAP. It has many very, very busy screens, each with [...]
Icons, Pedagogic Vectors, Forms Design and Posture
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
This entry is part 9 of 12 in the series Medical ComputingIcons and Pedagogic Vectors We all have trouble remembering a program’s graphical icons. The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has a standard for icons – an icon must be interpreted correctly by 2/3 of test subjects. In usability and error-prevention terms, a 1/3 error rate [...]
Healthcare IT in a Nutshell
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Keith Conover, M.D., FACEP version 1.1 12/25/09 You may want to read this introduction before you dive into this material. Get computer-literate and learn Healthcare IT in just a few hours: read/click on the links *.*: Star-Dot-Star (any file name, any file extension) .$$$: Temporary File 3G: “Third-Generation” cellular services: broadband over cellphones and cellphone [...]
