Abstract :
As with any potentially disruptive business process, the key starting point for multimedia application development is the users: who are they, and what do they want to do? I examine usability in digital media management, with special attention to searches, which most users employ repeatedly. My insights are drawn from almost a decade of experience with a business-to-business multimedia search application, which has evolved into the photography portal PictureQuest.
Keywords :
business data processing; human factors; information retrieval; multimedia computing; user interfaces; PictureQuest; business process; digital media management; multimedia application development; multimedia search application; photography portal; usability; Application software; Humans; Information retrieval; Keyboards; Libraries; Streaming media; System testing; Usability; User interfaces; Videos;
