[…]How about this scenario: You fly off to a vacation, renting a car at the airport. After you get going, you spend the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out how to turn on the windshield wipers, or the lights, or the air/conditioner. The problem is that geeks design gadgets and normal people struggle […]
Blogs, big corporations, newspapers, tech sites, etc. – they all have a search engine where you can search their content. But in many cases the results you get always seems to be some stupid internal meeting memo that has nothing to do with the product you where searching for. How come? How can we build better search engines?
Alex Bosworth has ten bullets in his gun. Ajax — JavaScript updates without page reloads — sets higher standards for a responsive, interactive webapplication. Faster response-times, less page reloads makes it easier for a user to focus on a task.
Podtech has an exclusive interview about Yahoo! and pushing RSS to their 227 million email users. Yahoo! has built RSS into their alerts services at alerts.yahoo.com and furthermore they’ve built an RSS reader into their email service. Unfortunately, it’s only for the invited beta users of Yahoo Mail.
Webstandards evangelist Molly Holzschlag wrote a brisk open letter to the Disney Store after they recently dumped their webstandards compliant site and introduced table-based layouts, spacer gifs, <font>-tags and lots of style attributes.
Google opens free internet cafe in London’s Heathrow Airport. But there is of cause a catch that you should be aware of.
Each year in Denmark the Danish government awards the best public sector websites. The competition is called “Best på Nettet” and this year the focus has especialy been on usability.
Just a quick note on Google and their Analytics tool. This is an update in relate to a previous post in this Blog named “Google Analytics vs. Usability”.
Also day two had very interesting presentations. Here’s more about Rolf Molich (DialogDesign) and Benjamin Gundgaard, CustomerSense.
The second and final day of the Danish usability conference. Here I cover the highlights of Eric Reiss’ presentation like for example how he cut him self with a kitchen knife while showing us how to slice mushrooms on a Steinway Piano.
Google Analytics – The website statistics service provided by Google free of charge have come to stir up the waters in the statistics business. Here I take a further look into some of the problems that still exists with this beta.
Jakob Nielsen, web banking experience and news on danish usability conference “usability dagene 05”
Danish usability event coming up next week.
We just signed up for testing the new Google Analytics statistics software. It gives us an idea of who is browsing our website. On the humorous side, the signup process is missing something. It seems that the license agreement is not found. Hilarious. Of course I accepted (but I’m still wondering what that means). We’re […]
Firefox browser gets some more usability brush-up. Once again, usability is an important piece of quality assurance for mainstream products.
Jensen Harris (working on Office 12) has written about using labels to aid the understanding of icons. Part of the user experience effort around Outlook 98 was improving the menu and toolbar structure. One of the problems noticed again and again among non-expert users was that people didn’t use the toolbar at all! With the […]
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