The numbers are in! Jesper first asked the question in “Design for Browser Size — Not Screen Size” and quickly after Thomas Baekdal of baekdal.com took up the challenge. After publishing his preliminary results he have now unveiled the final report: The report finds, among other things, that the majority of people browse maximized or […]
As Firefox 2 is set to release this Tuesday, I just want to share this neat trick with you. Use the Google search box in top right corner as a simple calculator. This is really handy for fast lookups, calculations, word definitions, currency conversions. In short, you can use all features Google makes accessible from […]
It just occurred to me that the new Internet Explorer 7 ships with a zoom tool. In other/older browsers (even the new Firefox 2 which was just released yesterday) zoom can only achieved natively by increasing or decreasing the text size – and that is only if the text size is not written in pixels. […]
Revisiting CAPTCHA: Since W3C wrote about “inaccessibility of CAPTCHA” almost a year ago, a new technique has emerged: Using technology, to make it easier for humans, and challenging for robots to fill out a form, and using a more traditional fall-back method in the rare cases where the system cannot detect if a human is […]
Part of our “blog usability” series. IBM’s frontpage focus on blogging inspired me to dig into their blogging policy and guidelines (created by the bloggers in an internal forum): Guidelines for IBM bloggers: executive summary Know and follow IBM’s Business Conduct Guidelines. Blogs, wikis and other forms of online discourse are individual interactions, not corporate […]
Via Keith Instone I learned that IBM’s US frontpage story today is about blogs. There are several points here worth noting: Blogs are an important factor of IBM’s public face. Blogs give a human face to the big company Focus on participating and sharing insight with clients Screenshot of the landing page: Also worth mentioning […]
UI11 is over and I headed back to Denmark to digest the insightful presentations. The conference had many highlights and it was truly inspirational to meet so many bright people.Some highlights are worth mentioning. Fantastic speakers Meeting Luke Wroblewski made me realize there is much to being a successful designer than just graphical design. Most […]
Perfect wallpaper for any project room. The Bad Usability Calendar from Norwegian company Netlife Research. At UI 11 last week I was fortunate to meet Eidar (photo) from Netlife Research. His usability firm made a Bad Usability Calendar, which is absolutely fantastic. I’m putting the link here directly, as their pages are in Norwegian. Bad […]
Today is our anniversary! One year ago, on this day, Jesper and I sat down in the office to chat. It was Friday and we quickly started talking about our favorite subject: What could we do to raise awareness of usability and web standards inside Capgemini? We discussed the ups and downs of newsletters, meetings, […]
[Jesper’s note: It will be interesting to see how this maps to Jakob Nielsen’s old ideas about reputation managers.] Netflix example: Wall-Mart went head to head with Netflix and lost. They are now linking to Netflix * 4 million subscribers 10 months ago * 60,000 titles, 40,000 of which are rented every day * 2/3 […]
Scent of information. Like predator hunting, people hunt for information. The “scent” users pick up is actually trigger words.
Jesper’s live notes from UI Conf. Barry Schwartz really has some deep insightful psychological points, that we can actually use in our daily work as usability professionals.
His main point is that more choices actually makes choosing harder and sometimes can paralyze people. In contradiction to traditional research, he argues that, the more choices you present people to, the less satisified people will eventually be.
[Live notes from UI Conf] Luke Wroblewski Management “i hate purple” – the visceral side with immediate reaction. look-and-feel level. But there is a deeper Structural, visual side. Structure underlining level. Example: airport map. This example i use over and over again. * no airplanes * every single color is as saturated as can be […]
[Live notes from UI Conf] My final thoughts: This is a power talk, and the full day tomorrow probably covers it better. Why agile development continues to grow in popularity Rare combination: Companies that are strong both on agile development and user experience. Wrong assumption. Agile is just about finishing something faster It isn’t just […]
AOL clicks related to search result position. Important lesson: If you’re not in the first ten results you don’t exist 1st on list: 42% 2nd 12% 3rd 8% They prefer to get the wrong results quickly rather than to waste time finding the right result. North pole: More people have been to the North Pole […]
From UI 11 Conference, Cambridge, Boston October 10, 2006. I’m sitting in on Jeffrey Eisenbergs sample presentation, which is a compressed version of yesterdays all-day talk. He started off with an example from godaddy.com Godaddy spent 5 million this year buying airtime for a superbowl commercial. TV commercial: hopefully this direct link works. (Otherwise choose […]
David Malouf and Bill Scott: Designing Powerful Web Apps with Ajax From UI 11 Conference, Cambridge, Boston October 9, 2006. David’s and Bills presentation notes available. Macromedia coined the term “Rich Internet Application” originally because they wanted to create buzz around Macromedia Flash MX. Usability tests often raise the Q: “Why doesn’t this work like […]
Update: All notes collected in the category “UI11“. Next week I will be in Cambridge, Massachussets attending User Interface 11 Conference. I plan to post my notes here on the blog, but don’t expect them to be as extensive as the ones I posted from RailsConf. Maybe more like my notes from Jesse James Garret’s […]
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