Imagine you are the benevolent leader of a small fictional country somewhere in the third world. Your resources are limited. While your country isn’t as poor as some other third world countries, many of your citizens can’t read or write, … Continue reading
Ajax Sliders are becoming an ‘in’ tool for filtering search results. They are also quite easy to do wrong if you’re not paying attention to the user experience. Before you read on, check out Properazzi and try out the price … Continue reading
This is a pretty interesting presentation from Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s Executive Vice President (4/12/07). He says, fairly bluntly: Right now, the Nokia Handset User Experience has scope for improvement There are inconsistency problems between applications. Discoverability can be a problem … Continue reading
Imagine it’s 4.30pm on a weekday. Are you allowed to park here? if so, how long for? This is a great example of disinformation design from Haringey council in North London. Because the council profits from poor information design, this … Continue reading
Coming soon – GUI whiteboard magnets from Eight Media in the Netherlands. These look quite useful for collaborative wireframe sketching sessions in front of the whiteboard. I’ll definitely be ordering some.
I’ve recently rediscovered the IxDA.org discussion forum, and I feel compelled to do a post on it – not only is the actual content great, but the web-interface is really nice, keeping the posts tidy and making them a easy … Continue reading
A nice, clear explanation, found via Robert Scoble’s Link Blog. This discussion about the tension between convinience and security reminds me of this recent
The nice folks at Techsmith are giving away free copies of Snagit 7.5.2 and Camtasia 3. Both apps are really useful for UX professionals, and they’d normally set you back a few quid. They aren’t the newest versions but they … Continue reading
There’s been a fair amount of discussion over the past week about eye tracking. As someone who used to do a bit of qualitative eye tracking research at Amberlight, (a great London-based UCD consultancy that I used to work at), … Continue reading
A fairly random selection of things I’ve been looking at over the past week or so.