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.
You may have noticed that a few people are blogging about Blendie right now – the blender that you growl at to make it go. If you like the idea then try downloading Racing Pitch – a prototype PC game … Continue reading
I read a nice factoid on this topic this morning in Eric Schaffer’s Institutionalization of Usability book. It’s a quote from Jared Spool: In April of 2002, Princeton Survey Research Associates surveyed 1,000 adult Internet users about their concerns with … Continue reading
I was looking at the packaging of my Arm & Hammer toothpaste this morning. It has metallic inks, embossed card, and plastic lamination. The box probably cost more than the contents. It’s kind of pointless given that everyone chucks the … Continue reading
The OLPC (aka the ‘hundred dollar laptop’) has a ‘View Source’ button on the keyboard. See if you can guess which one it is in this image here. The motivation for this is to let kids ‘under the bonnet’ and … Continue reading
Lifted. A funny short film from Pixar, with bad UI design featuring heavily in the plot. Thanks to Andrew Harder for sending this one round…
If you don’t know much about Personas, or have your doubts about them, read this article and the comments thread over at Signal vs. Noise (the 37signals blog). Here’s an excerpt: We don’t use personas. We use ourselves. I believe … Continue reading