Tag Archives: User Experience

The importance of setting accurate expectations

Using a feedreader and can’t see the video? This post is all about the importance setting accurate expectations. One of my friends, Ofer Deshe, often uses this clip when running UX training workshops. What a great way of summing it … Continue reading

Can using free software lower the bar for your own design standards?

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

The Importance of Analytics in User Experience

If you stop and think about it, web analytics is pretty damn amazing. Unlike any other time in the history of commerce, it’s possible for business owners to track and measure every tiny detail of thousands of customers’ behaviour without … Continue reading

Share links with me on Google Reader

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

ROI is not just for businesses: how users make ROI judgements

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

How Mailchimp turned to Mechanical Turk for their User Research

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

Count the passes (the inattentional blindness phenomenon)

I don’t normally link to items from Etre’s Reaction blog , because I’m assuming that it’s probably already in your feed reader. If not, you’d do well to add it. Their posts are fun, visual and frequent, which is rare … Continue reading

Wary of giving your password to yet another site? – OAuth to the rescue

Woah there! You’ve found yourself on an old article. Take note of the date before reading. I’ve just been doing a spot of reading about oAuth and thought I’d do a quick post on it. This was a hot topic … Continue reading

Three User Experience Guidelines for Ajax Sliders

Ajax Sliders are becoming an ‘in’ tool for filtering search results. They are also quite easy to do wrong if you’re not paying attention to the user experience. Before you read on, check out Properazzi and try out the price … Continue reading