3 month ago
gleuschk : How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine - seemed interesting, at least on a skim
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4 month ago
Richard Rutter : Silverback brings advanced usability testing to the Mac - Good early review of Silverback.
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5 month ago
veen : The Kindle User Experience - Mobile Community Design - "I'm really looking forward to 2.0."
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veen : Camcorder Brings Zen to the Shoot - New York Times - "if you're successful at something the first time you try, you fall instantly in love with it."
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6 month ago
wearehugh : Administrative Debris
jcgregorio : Administrative Debris - Sweet redesign. I have already borrowed the sentence as navigation bar idea.
Simon Willison : Administrative Debris - Administrative Debris. Ryan Tomayko explains his exceptionally clean redesign, inspired by Edward Tufte’s critique of the iPhone.
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jonhicks : Silverback app coming soon! - A Clearleft production on the way. Yeah I know it's another one of those mysterious signs up pages with no hint of what it's all about!
Rod Begbie : Silverback: guerrilla usability testing - Pretty damned nifty usability-testing app for OS X. With an *awesome* icon. Similar to (and considerably cheaper than) the Windows app Morae. [via] #
joshua : Silverback — guerrilla usability testing
Greg Storey : Spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for website designers. - And it works to save the ape population. Nice.
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Linkorama : Three Unforgivable Usability Sins - Automation where needed, keeping context and bad error messages
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10 month ago
wearehugh : Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review) « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger - just once, i wish a device would fail for MY reasons. but no, this one will fail because it just plain sucks.
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11 month ago
Linkorama : number of features that matter? - I don’t think the number of features is what makes software better or worse. One more or one less isn’t really the issue. What matters is the editing.
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13 month ago
Simon Willison : OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience - OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience. Realistic, detailed look at the many usability problems that currently surround OpenID—and a good list of suggested fixes at the end. This is why I’ve been advocating OpenID as a tool for early ad
Jeremy Zawodny : OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience - OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience: OpenID is a usability nightmare... shock! Shocking, I tell you. Heh.
factoryjoe : flow|state: OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience - Some good feedback on challnges with the OpenID user experience. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: openid, usability, design, user experience
Linkorama : OpenID Usability - OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience
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15 month ago
43folders : Global Nerdy: The Lightswitch That Might Explain a Lot About Java - "The lightswitch design philosophy at Sun is quite clearly reflected in Java."
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15 month ago
veen : Nelson's Weblog: Why PC gaming is doomed - "It's not just that it took six hours for the game to be ready. It's that it took six hours of dominating my PC making it hard to do other things"
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15 month ago
fastclemmy : Flash is suspect - Flash is suspect by fastclemmy A Flash site aimed at showing that it's not 99% bad (made by Nurun, accidentely a mostly Flash-based web agency). usability nielsen hotlinks search flash Copy | React (0)
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17 month ago
jimray : Helpful distortion - Design is knowing what not to include as much as what to include. In the case of subway maps, is it more important to know how the tracks actually bend - or to know how to get from one place to another.
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17 month ago
Linkorama : RobotReplay - RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke
Jeremy Zawodny : RobotReplay - The Next Generation of Web Analytics - RobotReplay - The Next Generation of Web Analytics: now *that's* what I call spyware!
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18 month ago
wearehugh : philwilson.org: IE7, an impartial review
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18 month ago
wearehugh : Alex Faaborg - » Would you Like to Redesign Notification in Firefox? Yes. Not Now. Never.
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures - Human interface cognitive load is proportional to the number of clicks/keystrokes/gestures: agreed!
Rod Begbie : Tantek's Thoughts: Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design - Nothing earth-shattering or new, but food for thought. [via] #
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19 month ago
deusx : Don Norman's jnd.org / UI Breakthrough-Command Line Interfaces - "So now command line interfaces are back again, hiding under the name of search. ... And they will get better and better with time: mark my words, that is my prediction for the future of interfaces."
Rod Begbie : Don Norman's jnd.org / UI Breakthrough-Command Line Interfaces - Don Norman on search boxes being the command lines of today. [via] #
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19 month ago
wearehugh : as days pass by » Blog Archive » Form usability
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20 month ago
wearehugh : Behind the mirror – usability testing musings (day one) - Wait till I come!
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20 month ago
wearehugh : One for the Morning Glory: Package management usability
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20 month ago
jimray : "just a few clicks away" - Deleting a shortcut from your Vista desktop, in seven easy steps
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20 month ago
Linkorama : 10 Best Intranets of 2007 - This year's winners emphasized an editorial approach to news on the homepage. They also took a pragmatic approach to many hyped "Web 2.0" techniques. While page design is getting more standardized, there's no agreement on CMS or technology platforms for g
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20 month ago
deusx : Flash 99% Good - For those who make interactive. » Why isn’t this site built in Flash? - The cost of usable Flash. - "My experience is that if you want to build a full Flash site, and make it usable.. be prepared to spend 40% more time building back in the typical usability behaviors of a normal HTML page."
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