My chum Mel works for a company called Headstar who – from the one’s I’ve met – seem like thoroughly decent chaps. They describe themselves thusly: “Headstar is an independent publishing house and events organiser based in Brighton focused on
I’ve finally got a copy of Vista running at home. I’m mainly going to use it as a Media Center and I’d like to say that there’s lots of thing I like about it. I’d like to say that because
Woah there! You’ve found yourself on an old article. Take note of the date before reading. Ok I acknowledge that I’m no security expert and this probably isn’t a major security risk, but do you recognize this scenario? You’re on
Now I’m a Mac lover, but there are some things about iTunes and iPods that drive me nuts. When you’re listening to your ipod and a crappy song comes on, there is no option to trash it. If you import
The Help Desk (via My Confined Space – be warned some of the other stuff there isn’t particularly safe for work – or particularly good – but the video clip is a corker) The Museum of Lost Interactions (via Boing
I’ve recently been talking to a number people about the “release early, release often” mantra. If you’re working on a new web app for the mass consumer market, be very wary. “Release early, release often” was written with open source
There’s been a lot of talk lately about Snap’s “preview anywhere” mouse-over menus lately, and how they are a usability nightmare. Well, I’d like to add my 2p by turning this discussion on its head and pointing out a couple
Check out the full size version of this sceen grab. Imagine you are planning on buying a new contract for your mobile phone. This deal looks good doesn’t it? 2000 minutes & 1000 SMS for only £25 a month, with
Esther Dyson, a well known and very successful venture capitalist (think flickr, del.icio.us & more), gave a short speech at Minibar in london on friday. It was great to hear her talking passionately about User Experience. Basically her message was
Maybe I should stop ranting about this but it really gets me going. The OLPC UI specs seem to have been revised slightly and it’s got some people saying things like “Wow!” “Genius!” “How Adventurous!” and that sort of thing.
IntelliAdmin.com: The 5 sins of Vista This is depressing reading. Basic bread and butter stuff which I’d hoped was going to get better in Vista. I had assumed that stuff like this had been sorted out but simply wasn’t being
Joel Veitch is a minor media celebrity. He’s behind rathergood.com,a major contributer to the rather wonderful b3ta.com. If you’ve seen the rather popular punk kittens clips – that’s him – and he’s done commercial work for Virgin, Channel 4, Switch,
Introducing… the TV-out cable! So some people are excited about living room “Media center PCs” (AppleTV, Windows MCE, etc) and some people are ridiculing the idea. I get this feeling that when making this judgement, people tend to think of
History of the Button » Blog Archive » What’s a Navi button? Kerpow! Nice take-down. Product design is often even worse than web design which is fairly strange considering the fact that products typically cost a lot more to develop
If you haven’t already seen the Reuters news article about this, check out this table showing ipod Nano (2GB) prices across the world: Note: prices are shown in £5 bands (to make the table smaller).
In The Power of Defaults Jeff Atwood nicks the title of an old Jakob Nielson post and weaves in some ideas of his own. “For most users, the default value is the only value. Your choice of default values will
Accessibility has won the political battle and web standards have won the hearts and minds of many developers and designers. Unfortunately usability is the poor relation which is a shame as it is by far the most important of the
According to Diggnation, Microsoft ran a number of focus groups for Office 2007 and asked people what new features they wanted Office to do. They gave a list of needs and nice-to-haves. Funnily enough, all of the requested functionality was
If you check out the official iPhone site you will see that it declares: “All the power and sophistication of the world’s most advanced operating system — OS X — is now available on a small, handheld device that gives
Touchscreens. Pockets. Keys. Big Fat Thumbs. These things haven’t managed to go together very well in the past … but have Apple managed to crack it with the iPhone? The great thing about physical buttons is that they stay in