20 days ago
philgyford : How people really use the iPhone - SlideShare - Presentation on a company's user testing with iPhones. One thing not mentioned: although some people made mistakes, did they immediately learn from them, or did they keep making the same mistakes? Big difference I think. (via Chris Heathcote)
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Richard Rutter : Five second test – simple online usability test - Kinda-neat (if somewhat over simplified).
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Richard Rutter : Yahoo OpenID fails woefully in usability testing - Sad but not exactly unexpected – I get confused with Yahoo’s implementation and I’m an avid OpenID consumer.
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Simon Willison : Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research - Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research. Extremely valuable research, conducted with a group of typical Yahoo! users. OpenIDs usability remains bad, and if we don’t get it right soon something centralised like Facebook Connect will take over and the Web will
Rod Begbie : Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research - Spoiler: OpenID usability SUCKS MASSIVE DONKEY COCKS IN HELL FOREVER. The mental model is completely broken. Its one use that I can see: an open backend for "Login to this site with your foo.com account" style buttons [via] #
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2 month ago
veen : Communicate Quick: First Impressions Through Visual Web Design, by Luke Wroblewski - Luke says nice stuff about the Start Conference web site.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Video? I Doubt It - The pictures you take with this camera will almost certainly look great with little effort, while your videos will require huge effort and probably still end up lousy.
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3 month ago
Richard Rutter : Guerrilla Usability Testing workshop - Learn how to run usability tests at your own office, a cafe or even your test participant’s home..
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gleuschk : How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine - seemed interesting, at least on a skim
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6 month ago
Richard Rutter : Silverback brings advanced usability testing to the Mac - Good early review of Silverback.
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8 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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9 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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12 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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14 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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16 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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17 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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18 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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18 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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19 month ago
Khoi Vinh : Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies - “A survey of different kinds of interaction designs in movies during the past decades and relates the techniques of the films to existing technologies and prototypes.”
deusx : Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies - "Science Fiction movies have been a source for speculation about the future of technology and human computer interaction. This paper presents a survey of different kinds of interaction designs in movies during the past decades and relates the techniq
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20 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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20 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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21 month ago
wearehugh : philwilson.org: IE7, an impartial review
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21 month ago
wearehugh : Alex Faaborg - » Would you Like to Redesign Notification in Firefox? Yes. Not Now. Never.
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