Jesper and I were invited yesterday to speak for the Danish IT usability network (link in Danish) about prototyping and our experience with prototypes. In short, the presentation touched Prototyping, how and when to get up to speed Cases from the public and financial sectors where we have been prototyping Experience with different tools, such […]
Chris McEvoy has some good and thorough observations around the inconsistencies in Google’s menues. Even though the menus are extremely simple, they seem to differ on most of the 26 sites mentioned. Below are Chris’ observations from his article A to z of Google Information Architecture: Here are 26 different sets of menu items for […]
Rolf Molich has done a lot to make the usability profession what it is today. He keeps asking questions to what we thought would be common wisdom 5 years ago, and he keeps asking questions. Now, addressing the fact that usability test results can be very diverse (and often are). “If you have 500 problems […]
It’s been a while where web standards don’t get the attention it deserves on this blog. In that spirit, here’s a behind-the-scenes view on how Technorati makes rounded corners on a faded background. I remember Eric Meyer mentioned this solution back at a workshop in 2005 (before he could actually tell that it was for […]
The Onion has a humorous feature list from Microsoft Vista in the recent issue: Microsoft Vista Released Microsoft released its new operating system, Vista, on Jan. 30. Here are some of its features: Microsoft Word’s helpful paper-clip icon now blinks at rate of normal humans Enhanced graphics on “System Is Not Responding” pop-up window Five […]
Thomas and I are interviewed in Danish newspaper “Børsen” today. The article is a 10,000 feet business overview on the productivity gains and possibilities with Ruby on Rails. I really like the picture (by Reimar Juul) and the fact that the article mentions both Justaddwater.dk and Copenhagen Ruby Brigade. Woot! Click image to view larger […]
Just a quick note. Jakob Nielsen mentions Bad Usability Calendar in his latest newsletter, and links to our Norwegian friends at NetLife Research that originally published it.
A quick tip from Henrik Olsen, GUUUI (Interaction Designers Coffebreak): 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online. There are very interesting findings in the survey behind the report.
All of a sudden, Joe Kleinberg posted a comment on “Who invented the Spacer.gif“, with the claim that he actually invented the technique [before David Siegel]:
Thomas Baekdal and I have translated and are now publishing Bad Usability Calendar 2007 in Danish. I can highly recommend using this calendar in projects as wallpaper. But good luck on using it for actual planning. This year’s version contains advice regarding AJAX, overwhelming use of graphics, advertising, and much more. Download Bad Usability Calendar […]
With the help and encouragement of Claude Almansi, I have now transcribed the web 2.0 video “We are the web” (my notes from yesterday). Full text transcript available right here below. Also, Claude is working hard making a transcribed video available on Mojiti. See the work (in progress) here below: Complete transcript below Web 2.0 […]
User involvement is king. The web is built on participation. Mojiti’s ability to add comments to video content has impressed me. I must say that got completely carried away and wanted to know more about one of the articles used in Mike Wesch’s video “The Machine is us/using us” that I noted yesterday. Luckily somebody […]
Must see Michael Wesch of Kansas University released a brilliant video on the possibilities of the web. It’s a fantastic intro and eyeopener, and it makes me wonder, if it would be relevant to use at work with clients to give a short intro (because it contains a lot of things I may take for […]
Right now, Google Mail disappeared just as I was about to send an email. And I thought this would never happen! (2 minutes later the service is up and running again) UPDATE: Two things happened after going online again. I found out my mail was actually sent before the server went down (so I ended […]
Today justaddwater.dk got spam comment number 100,000. But actually the real number is much higher since we have incorporated a couple of measures to catch the spam even before it reaches WordPress or Akismet. We have for example been blocking certain keywords that we found where common in spam that slipped through Akismet, or we […]
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