Kitchen Stories (2003) is a wonderfully offbeat Swedish comedy about a strange, government funded ethnographic field research project and the impact it has on the lives of the researchers and subjects. I’ve never heard of anyone making a feature film
I really like the idea of FiveSecondTest – it’s a lightweight, free webapp for gathering user feedback on your site designs, particularly suited to people who have zero budget and little time for user research. The original version had fairly
This is pretty cool – “By using a Google Streetview-like camera, a system with six lenses, not as a photo but as a video camera, an all-encompassing picture is captured. […] From the point where the images were recorded, the
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
There was about 120 respondents for last weeks quiz (Which of these search results pages perform best?) – not a bad turn out. What’s interesting is that quite a number of you were wrong, wrong, wrong! This is a perfect
Here’s another press release turned quiz from Maxymiser. Which one of the designs below do you think got the highest number of clickthroughs to an item detail page? And which one do you think got the highest number of ‘call
Got a webcam? Want to try a cute augmented reality demo/toy on your PC (Or Mac)? Then visit the Toyota IQ Reality site. Although the wow factor of this demo will wear off after a few minutes, it’s worth bearing
This did the rounds last week, but if you didn’t see it, here is The Onion’s hilariously sweary usability rant about a fictitious (though familiar looking) new product from Sony. Using a feedreader? Click through to see the clip →
A nice UX ROI tidbit from Karl Sabino over on the Think blog: Once the analytics were up and running, we could quickly see which pages occurred before and after the error page. This let us identify the user journeys
Back in the 1970s when Artificial Intelligence was in its infancy, researchers hit upon a performance problem. Their robots were designed to take in every detail of their surroundings and perform complex mathematical calculations to deduce what they could see.
Credit: George Underwood, 2006 User experience is a many faced beast. From one perspective, it’s all about differentiation, brand image and loyalty-building. While this argument is compelling, it involves a a big gap between money in → value out. Lord