Fever is a new feed-reader from Shaun Inman, the guy who created Mint (The self-hosted analytics app, not the finance site). The concept of Fever is pretty clever – it parses your RSS feeds and works out which articles are … Continue reading
One of the most annoying things about being a UX consultant is the all NDAs you have to sign – you don’t get to talk to people about the research you’ve been doing or get to show people your deliverables. … Continue reading
When you start your own company, there are lots of small decisions that you need to make. What do you splash out on, and what do you pinch pennies on? It’s tricky to decide. One of the common ways to … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting (but unverified) factoid about the halo effect that occurs from Google’s branding. This popped up in an Adage article a few days ago: “[…] Google has conducted internal tests, according to people familiar with them, in which … Continue reading
This gem was mentioned in Henry Petroski’s “Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design“. In 1662 William Grey of Pittendrum built a house for himself in Edinburgh (pictured above). He was concerned about the problem of burglary and … Continue reading
In this article I interview Maya Middlemiss, MD of Saros Research, who talks about the ins and outs of recruitment for user research, and among other things, how to avoid getting people like the dude in the photo from turning … Continue reading
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