OpenID User Experience explained
A nice, clear explanation, found via Robert Scoble’s Link Blog. This discussion about the tension between convinience and security reminds me of this recent
User Experience
Links for 18 Nov 2007
A fairly random selection of things I’ve been looking at over the past week or so.
Pixar short film featuring bad UIs and alien abductions
Lifted. A funny short film from Pixar, with bad UI design featuring heavily in the plot. Thanks to Andrew Harder for sending this one round…
Great discussion on Personas over at Signal vs. Noise
If you don’t know much about Personas, or have your doubts about them, read this article and the comments thread over at Signal vs. Noise (the 37signals blog). Here’s an excerpt: We don’t use personas. We use ourselves. I believe … Continue reading
Pagegangster.com – Cool flash viewer for PDFs.
I’ve just discovered pagegangster – a very flashy Flash viewer for PDFs. You upload your PDF, in return pagegangster gives you a magazine-style UI where you can flip through pages, zoom, and do searches. it’s all very nifty looking. While … Continue reading
Wanted: a different kind of event scheduling tool for personal life
I was flipping through Allan Cooper’s classic “The Inmates are Running the Asylum” just the other day, and I noticed how in one section he has a little rant about how calendaring software is broken. “Many calendar programs are available … Continue reading
Zune.net: 8 serious design mistakes, and how they could have been prevented.
Before I start I’d like to say I’m not a Microsoft Hater. I’m actually very, very impressed with Office 2007 – the UI design is great. And when I saw today’s splurge of blog posts about the new Zune, I … Continue reading
The difference between good and bad writers.
A great quote that sums up the art of User-Centered Writing: “Bad writers worry about whether the reader will understand them. Good ones are more concerned about how well they understand the reader.” – Paraphrased from Lindsay Camp (2007)
The journey IS the destination
This should be the mantra for user experience designers everywhere. Image stolen unashamedly from Jonny Baker’s Photostream. The concept came up in a chat with Simon Johnson today over lunch.
A great example of bad dialog box design – Part 2.
Douglas Karr pointed out that I should put my money where my mouth is and explain how it should be redesigned. Having given it some thought, I’ve realised this is a particularly tricky dialog box – the problem does not … Continue reading