Author Archives: Harry Brignull

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

And the winner was…

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 … Continue reading

Quiz: which of these search results pages perform best?

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 … Continue reading

An Augmented Reality demo you can try at home

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 … Continue reading

Hilarious usability rant on The Onion

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 → … Continue reading

Karl Sabino on the ROI of well designed error messages

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 … Continue reading

What retro 1970s robots can teach us about our business practices.

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. … Continue reading

Should the recession change how we “sell” User Experience?

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 … Continue reading