Yearly Archives: 2009

Five UX antipatterns to avoid when designing Log-in & Registration areas

Registration and log-in areas have been a common feature on the web since – well – since forever really. With this in mind, it’s amazing how many top name sites deliver frustrating registration and log-in experiences that not only annoy … Continue reading

Share links with me on Google Reader

I’m a big fan of Google Reader, but the process for adding friends is pretty awkward, and seems to be impacting its uptake – at least for me and people on my social network. Anyway, the friends shared items functionality … Continue reading

FREE webinar today at 1500 GMT! – “Leveraging the UX paradigm” (limited places!)

Book now – only 21 places left! Impress your prospective clients by developing your repertoire of elitist acronyms and ISO standards How to rehash Nielsen / Norman / Krugg publications from the 1990s into your very own book, and become … Continue reading

ROI is not just for businesses: how users make ROI judgements

Return on Investment (ROI) analysis is normally thought of as something that only businesses do in trying to work out how to make cost-effective decisions. In fact, ROI is something that normal consumers think about a great deal, albeit in … Continue reading

UX Brighton: monthly user experience meet-ups, anyone?

If you’re in South East England and into User Experience, this post will be of interest to you. UX Brighton is a free monthly event for User Experience types. It was pretty successful last year, having speakers such as Andy … Continue reading

How Mailchimp turned to Mechanical Turk for their User Research

Mailchimp (the email marketing webapp people) have written about a really interesting piece of user research they ran using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Within the Mailchimp webapp, you can upload an image as the banner for your email templates. To make … Continue reading

1000 Greyscale Silk icons for use in wireframing

I really like Mark James’s Silk Icons. Not only are they completely free, but they are pleasingly neutral and sit well on almost any page. At Madgex, our design team has been using them in our Axure wireframes. The only … Continue reading

Signup forms must die – here’s how we killed ours!

Here’s a short screencast demo of our new Lazy Registration system on the Madgex Job Board Platform. If you’ve read Luke Wrobleski’s book or ALA article ‘Sign up forms must die‘, this will probably be familiar territory, but if you’re … Continue reading

BSOD Error Reporting: boost the error reporting user experience of your websites.

Intended for web developers with an intermediate to advanced knowledge of XHTML, CSS, Javascript and Windows 95, the script BSOD.js provides an easy-to-use class to boost the error reporting user experience of your websites. Made by Guillermo Rauch of Devthought. … Continue reading

The tricks that supermarkets play to stop you from comparing on price

So here I am in my local Sainsbury’s, doing my weekly shopping. Let’s see, what’s first on my list…? Ah, Apples. I like buying organic, if it’s not too much more expensive. Lets look at the prices: A bag of … Continue reading