Tags: usability
Tags: usability
Bookmarks for Jun 30
Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 7:54 am, Over one day old at FactoryCity
“If even a fraction of the coding effort that regularly goes into convincing people to cough up their email or website login credentials went into finding other, more reasonable solutions to this problem — perhaps we could have arrived at a saner solution by now.
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Firefox 3 'awesome bar' not (at all) awesome
Posted Wednesday June 18, 2008, 5:02 pm, Over one day old at The Tao of Mac
I, too, am under the impression that we?re witnessing the troubled birth of one of the most stupid and irritating UI elements of our time, tantamount to Clippy. Technorati Tags: 3, bad, design, firefox, idea, impediment, interaction, irritant, links, ui, usability@
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Designing Web Navigation (Book review)
Posted Wednesday March 19, 2008, 4:01 am, Over one day old at 456 Berea Street
And you're very likely to have run into problems more than once when trying to figure out how to make a website or Web application easy and intuitive not only for yourself, but for your own or your client's end users, to find their way around.
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Specify a maximum width for em-based layouts
Posted Tuesday March 4, 2008, 3:00 am, Over one day old at 456 Berea Street
One technique that can easily make reading a site a lot more uncomfortable is using an elastic, or em-based, layout such as the one I use here (and talk about a bit more in detail in Fixed or fluid width?
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Make sure your website works with or without www
Posted Tuesday February 12, 2008, 2:58 am, Over one day old at 456 Berea Street
But it really surprises me how often typing in a domain name without "www." in front results in one of the following: I do however think that it makes a really bad impression when any of the above happens when you try to access an organisation's website without typing "www.".
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MP3s Masquerading As WAVs Suitable for Ringtones
Posted Monday January 29, 2007, 1:00 am, Over one day old at The Glass is Too Big
Having WAV or MP3 ringtones is a way to get exactly the right sounds to let me know the phone is ringing, while being subtle enough to suit my sensibilities.| | | | | | It's the last bit that led me to my problem on Friday.
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Test di usabilità: Rich Internet Applications VS HTML
Posted Wednesday January 10, 2007, 12:26 am, Over one day old at TF
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Conversation Feeds
Posted Sunday December 24, 2006, 6:58 am, Over one day old at coComment blog
(If you’re just having one conversation, or read only one blog, subscribing becomes less useful.) | | So, how could we organise comment/conversation feeds to make them more usable? | | The main problem I have with multiple conversation feeds is that the conversations are all mixed up.
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The OLPC User Interface
Posted Tuesday November 28, 2006, 12:37 am, Over one day old at WeBreakStuff
Dumbed down - sure; Stupid - no, thanks The user interface for the OLPC, code-named Sugar, tries to make it easy for a child to use the computer to perform tasks like browsing the web, reading and writing documents, chatting online and play a few games.
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Analog Lessons in Usability: Kramer
Posted Saturday November 25, 2006, 4:46 am, Over one day old at 30 Boxes | it's your life
The next day I heard sports radio show host Jim Rome carve up (gratuitous Thanksgiving reference) Richards and Rome’s conclusion: he isn’t planning on watching Seinfeld either and can’t fathom how anyone else could either.
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