Author: mark.vilrokx

That was one of the questions one of the Oracle’s Executives asked when we presented our new Cloud UX Lab.  The short answer was that there were none.  As far as I am aware, we never did any testing of any of our prototypes and applications on Windows Phones or tablets because, frankly, we thought it didn’t… Read More

No more an “honorary” but now a full-blown member of the AppsLab team, I gave a presentation at the Chicago & Dubai Oracle Usability Advisory Board in November on REST and Web APIs and how they can facilitate the transition from on-premise software to cloud-based solutions (the content of which can be fodder for a future post). As we all… Read More

Editor’s note: Here’s another post from Mark Vilrokx (@mvilrokx), detailing some hacking he did to help his daughter, who has Dyslexia, read web pages. This is an awesome idea, and I love hacking for good. I’m not alone, e.g. Marco Arment has added OpenDyslexic to Instapaper. We need more of this. Anyway, read on for Mark’s story… Read More

Editor’s note: Here’s another post from Mark Vilrokx (@mvilrokx) derived from his work on the Voice project. Let’s follow Mark as he tampers with Siri and find the comments here or on his original post. A few months ago, just after Siri was released on the world I got the uncontrollable urge to see what Siri could do for me.… Read More

Editor’s note: The following post comes from Mark Vilrokx (@mvilrokx), one of my colleagues in Apps UX. Mark has been working on the Voice project that Ultan (@ultan) mentioned in his recap of the OUAB meeting last week, and as part of his work on Voice, Mark has done some serious hacking that I wanted… Read More