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Today is my last day at the company I´ve been working for 4 years as a Usability manager: idealista.com.

I just can say thank you. During this time I´ve learned a lot about how to create and manage an international team and my vision about Interaction design has improved considerably.

My soul was asking for a big change and somehow I felt I couldn´t say no. The next challenge? Still on the air… But ready to face fresh new stuff. While this puzzle finds his form, I think it´s better of travelling a little bit.

If you want to share some ideas or projects with me just drop me an email at:
juan at seisdeagosto.com (until mid-setember I won´t be online again).

Ya ssas!! Hello world!!

I just had a look at the paper “Comfort in Using Hand Tools” and found quite interesting the different definitions authors give for the term “Comfort”:

According to Peter Vink , Comfort is “a convenience experience by the end‐user during or just after working with the product“.

Wikipedia, on the other hand, defines Usability as a term “used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal”.

To me, both of them are quite similar for several reasons:

• They have qualitative attributes;
• They are focused on the end-user;
• They look for best experience.

But curiously, the paper mentioned above just outlines “Usability” once…
The only difference I see between these two concepts could be in the “touching” experience: Comfort is a bit more narrow, more related to physical objects. Usability is a wider concept, including not only physical hardware but also digital sofware.

From now on, I think I would include Confort when talking about Usability. The term sounds human, smooth and friendly…

“In 1972, when I was born, there were no vinyls in my city. These objects, weren´t on sale especific stores. Some luthiers used to sell just classical music. Popular music used to be sold at the domestic appliance´s store: from Spanish “Copla” to the “Rock&Roll” or Argentinian “Boleros”.
(…)
“Now all that stuff has gone and modern digital music players display very often on the screen “Unknown artist. Track 1″, being this the only visual information that accomplishes the song”.

“Novedades discográficas” was recorded on July 2008 in Valladolid city (Spain) by the shiny, happy people of Zaunka. The funny mock-ups were designed by Mr. Ginés and this is the result (Vimeo, 2:38min):

After 5 years of deep silence, one of the most talented Spanish Interaction Designers is writing again. And I am very happy to read him again.

Welcome back, Outsider.

“Barak Obama is now a connection”.