Adaptive Path have put together a nice free whitepaper on Sign-up & Ramp up design patterns. I think it’s by Alexa Andrzejewski, one of their interaction designers. One notable thing missing is the Lazy Registration design pattern, but hey, that’s
If you haven’t seen this clip already, here it is. There’s some smart comments on slashdot, in amongst the noise. Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
What is Silverback? Silverback is a simple tool for recording face-to-face user research sessions on OS X. It’s made by Clearleft, it’s in currently in beta, and the price and release date haven’t yet been published. I’m one of the
I usually hate it when people blog about their sprogs but suddenly I understand… My daughter Lilly was born on saturday afternoon, 7 pounds 14, a little bundle of joy. I’ll be fairly offline over the next two or three
I promise to stop ranting about the evils opt-in / out-out design patterns, but I noticed a real gem today that I had to share with you: It’s funny how the honest business objective of keeping in touch with your
So, according to Jared Spool’s Keynote at IA Summit 08, “User-Centred Design is dead”. There’s a good write up by Mia Northrop of Avenue A | Razorfish here, and another by Molly Anglin of NLC here. I usually love challenging
Quietly announced on Twitter – Clearleft’s silverback app is going to be “Usability testing software for web designers”. See, I guessed right back in February! As a result I’ve ended up on the alpha testing team. My lips are sealed
It’s quite interesting to watch the FOWD 08 conference tweets as they happen. I’m quite surprised at how much bitching is going on. Check out the flash widget below – come on guys, play nice! Can’t see the flash widget?
Ethnio has come on a lot since I last checked – now it’s looking pretty damn good. Ethnio is a tool for finding participants for user research by enlisting live users from your website. If you’re not sure what I
Quite a few slide decks from IA Summit 2008 are finding their way onto slideshare. They all look great. As a taster, here’s Peter Morville’s Search Patterns presentation: | View | Upload your own
I don’t normally link to items from Etre’s Reaction blog , because I’m assuming that it’s probably already in your feed reader. If not, you’d do well to add it. Their posts are fun, visual and frequent, which is rare
The debate about the ethics of opt in / opt out defaults in web forms never seems to go away. If you’ve read Chris Anderson’s Wired Article “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business“, then you might know where
Providing a good UI for sorting and filtering search results key fundamental to making your long tail work. Bill Scott (Director of UI Engineering at Netflix) wrote a post on this yesterday with lots of video clips and screen grabs.
This is a great presentation by Jensen Harris, talking through the history of the MS Office UI and the design approach that brought about the ribbon. Contains nice shots of the early prototypes from slide 60 onwards. | View |
You may have noticed that Google changed their Advanced Search page eariler this month. The new version certainly is a lot tidier than the old one, which was a complete dogs dinner – take a look at a screen grab
… When you chuckle to yourself about drop-down menu items. I laughed to myself about this one eariler when buying tickets for Mavis Staples at the Brighton Dome. I ended up going for “Group Captain”.
According to this Article by Darren Waters, Nokia have started calling their devices “multimedia computers”. This makes me laugh – can you actually imagine any normal person ever using that term? “Hey, can I borrow you multimedia computer to make
Apparently this did the rounds last year but, like all great works of art, has a timeless quality. Found via Information Architecture Television. :-)
Last week Clearleft announced that they are building a revolutionary new app, called Silverback. As a viral marketing tactic, they haven’t told anyone what it actually does, and have only released a rather lovely splash page. Well, I’ve clearly succumbed
I’ve spent the last couple weeks choosing a high definition LCD TV, and in doing so I’ve been chatting to a lot of sales staff in different stores. Interestingly, a few have admitted to me that returns of HDTVs are