User Experience

uxurls.com: a user experience aggregator

I’ve just finished setting up uxurls.com – a user experience aggregator. It’s a really simple popurls clone, intended for people who are too busy to set themselves up with their own RSS reader, or just fancy a quick glance at … Continue reading

Xbox controllers used in the military – life mimicking art?

If you’ve played either of the recent Call of Duty “Modern Warfare” games, you’ll be aware of the disturbingly realistic air attacks you can carry out on other players. Call of Duty 4 (Computer game): It seems that the grainy … Continue reading

“User experience is everything” – Evan Williams, Twitter CEO

→ From Evan’s article Ten Rules for Web Startups (2005). → Found via InspireUX.com

Top posts of 2009 on 90percentofeverything.com

Well, it’s almost 2010, so I’m going to pre-empt the glut of 2009 retrospectives by getting mine out there first. In the past year I’ve written almost 100 posts on 90percentofeverything.com, and received over 400 comments. If there’s one thing … Continue reading

Google claim their new “fade in” feature provides increased efficiency for users

I admit that Google’s new “fade in” feature is pleasant in a bland sort of way, and seems to be a good move from a branding point of view – but what interests me is that they claim their Multivariate … Continue reading

New User Experience Link Blog: 90poe.com

You may have noticed that posts 90percentofeverything.com have dried a bit lately. This is mainly because I’m doing various other cool things, including working on some super-secret projects at Madgex, spending more time with my family, and watching my 18 … Continue reading

Achieving adoption of a disruptive product

“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” – Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878 “This telephone has too many shortcomings to be considered as a means of … Continue reading

ABtests.com – great new resource for sharing A/B test findings

This is going to be something special. Abtests.com is created by Bokardo, Performable, and KISSmetrics. In their words: “Our goal is simple: to help people test their web sites/applications and share that knowledge with others, making everyone smarter in the … Continue reading

Pear Note: record audio and video with your notes

A while back I blogged about Eben Haber’s FOSS Video Note Taker. Well, if you’re on Mac and you’ve got $40 bucks, you might also want to consider Pear Note for OS X: Pear Note records audio and/or video while … Continue reading

Screening out liars from your user research

The whole point of user research is that you get to observe real members of your target user group interacting with your product. However, the cash incentive that you offer – typically £50 for an hour – is compelling enough … Continue reading