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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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