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While being on vacation in beautiful Toscana, Italy, i’m trying out the Opera Mini browser on my Nokia 6233 cell phone. It is actually possible to use the blog administration software on the browser (log in, navigate, write posts, etc.) But it sure is not easy! There are lots of issues in the interface that […]

Open new windows is a no-no for several reasons. Frequently readers probably know this already, but since I’m often seeing this on Danish web pages, I think it’s time to reopen the discussion with new considerations. Unless you warn them, Web users are likely to expect the new page to load in the current window. […]

Sidebar note to the related article “Open New Window Still Has Usability Issues“. If your applications open links in the same window, users can actually decide for themselves how they want to open the window. Current browsers support these keyboard shortcuts: Click a link and holding Shift key opens link in new window Click a […]

Here is some agile methodology worth paying attention to, stating that even wrong decisions allow developers to keep momentum and push a project forward: > If we decide not to make any decisions we lose 10 times $822, for a total of $8,220 > per week. Let me say that again: blanket indecision loses $8,220 […]

Here is a good writeup from New York Times on why Flickr fails “The Mom Test”: Flickr was the wrong tool for that job. The terminology is confusing — quick, what’s the difference between a Photo Group, a Photo Set and a Photo Stream? Worse, it takes seven mouse clicks, two pop-up menus and two […]

Woohoo. I got a response from O’Reilly that my talk for RailsConf in Berlin is accepted. I will be presenting with my colleague Mads Buus, who’s also active in our Copenhagen Ruby user group. Here is the talk proposal: Title: Screenscraping as a tool for changing the (legacy) world Conference: RailsConf Europe 2007 Type/Duration: 45 […]

Via Kareem Mayan’s blog, I came across this story from 1982, when the Apple Lisa team decided upon using “OK” on the confirmation buttons in stead of “Do It”: When the software required confirmation from the user, it displayed a small window called a “dialog box”, that contained a question, and presented two buttons, for […]

Cameron Moll posted detailed tips on how to modify a standard Microsof Sharepoint 2007 installation into something with an acceptable output that’s valid XHTML and CSS, and less bloated with a much smaller footprint. In other words, a workaround for making Sharepoint work a little better out of the box. First of all, it’s a […]

Reboot was very good this year, and after meeting people like Mathias Müller-Prove (works with user experience on OpenOffice and did another presentation), Matthew (works in AllPeers — a company that does an interestning firefox plugin, that I unfortunately never got a demo of). This inspired me to have a conversation about “the humane interface“… […]