Interaction Design Day, Copenhagen I’m here live blogging at the Danish Interaction Design Day 2007 in Copenhagen (link in Danish). This post is probably the only one I’ll live blog today, as I only attend part of the conference. The mini conference is a fine mix between trade show and presentations. Best thing is to […]
I’ve been the proud owner of a MacBook Pro for a couple of months now. This is my first real experience with a Mac and my expectations where, not to say the least, great. I of cause expected some transition issues, me being a long time Microsoft Windows user and all – But the problems […]
Update: CPU fan speed can be controlled. See updated notes below…(2007-11-06) I got a new laptop from work last week. Swapped the old Dell D600 in for a sparkling new (IBM) Lenovo Thinkpad T60p. I really like the new one. Things I have noted for now: Much brighter and better screen Lovely keyboard which is […]
Yesterday BBC published a short article entitled “Web 2.0 ‘neglecting good design’“. The journalist apparently attended a talk by Jakob Nielsen where he talked about usability issues in Web 2.0. The article is basically just a summary of the talk, and the main focus is that many websites, in the rush to be more Web […]
Today I’ve removed password protection on the article “Prototyping Ruby on Rails Checklist to Get Started“. Sorry to have you waiting. There are two main reasons why I have kept it private: I wanted to check that the description worked well for me. And today I got my new laptop. It surprised me that a […]
Lou Rosenfeld wrote that google analytics is redesigned and has short notes from the demo that Jeff Veen and his team gave at Emetrics yesterday. There is a cool demo on the google analytics website. Jeffs words: Today, a completely redesigned version of Google Analytics is launching, bringing a lot of the simplicity and data […]
Why is it that my laptop gives me this warning:
AFTER the computer shuts down, so I see it when I plug it in and turn it on again?
We’re in the middle of Ruby on Rails Patch Day in the Copenhagen.rb (the copenhagen ruby society). Ruby on Rails is used by Capgemini for rapid prototyping of web applications, so it was natural for my manager to sponsor food for the all-night event. The food is irregular for a hack-day of this style: No […]
In my opinion, the autocomplete input boxes have a very low discoverability because they’re basically just textfields with added JavaScript. Google Suggest’s interface has an added line of text trying to explain and to make it easier to discover the _hidden_ functionality: “As you type, Google will offer suggestions. Use the arrow keys to navigate […]
Many of today have extremely advanced features and functionality. But the trend towards simpler, slicker user interfaces points towards hiding some of the functionality. Hiding functionality is — in my point of view — a very good thing for usability.
A usable website (or application) is:
What’s a usability blog without a post about door handles?
Daniel Szuc just pointed me to this photo from Joe Goldberg (via webword).
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