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01 Sep 2008 1330H

New Google browser?

The latest ploy by Google to own a piece of your desktop is your browser? That’s what this comic shows. Google Chrome, coming soon.
But if you were to create your own browser experience, what would it be like?

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26 Aug 2008 1519H

Something surprising

The other day I watched my four-year-old niece show exactly how conversant she is with the web. She is conversant to the degree that she can input in her own name and password into a site, and knows what the major web conventions are, and can play games with relative ease. Kinda makes you wonder [...]

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14 Aug 2008 1010H

Frivolity, but, hey: Uniqlock

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08 Aug 2008 0858H

Poka-yoke example

From Adobe Media Player. Prevent the user from triggering an error by designing error out of the application: Disable the Accept box until the user accepts the agreement, and don’t let them go forward until they accept the Terms. Or allow the user to quit. Simple.

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08 Jul 2008 0735H

Using old sites for benchmarking

In attending a UIE webinar two weeks ago I think it was (on designing to accommodate information foraging), it became apparent to all of us in the room that the site examples were about 10 years old, dotcom era relics already relegated to the historical dustbin of the Internet Archive. Was the information relevant? Of [...]

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09 Jun 2008 0850H

Destroy the Web 2.0 Look and Feel

By way of my colleague Mark. Wholeheartedly agree.

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02 Jun 2008 0624H

UX-dojo-storming PotteryBarn.com

Oh. Looks like W-S brands’ UX & Dev teams down at the north end of Van Ness have been hard at work lately. Let’s look the numbers:

#21 on the Internet Retailer Top 100,
$1.1 billion worth of stuff sold online last year, up 19% from the previous year,
7.1 million visitors a month,
6% conversion rate,
Average ticket of [...]

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26 May 2008 0724H

Faces of the Dead

A remarkable memorial to the fallen.

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18 Mar 2008 2024H

Users strongly prefer ‘View All’

They want to see everything. They don’t mind scrolling; they prefer to scroll than to see pagination. They want it all.

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06 Mar 2008 0906H

Reworking wireframes

Probably one of the most frustrating things about this type of work is the amount of rework that is required due to changing or poorly gathered business requirements, and in fact, sometimes the business side is actually using hard code and layouts as a kind of sandbox for their own ideas before rejecting or accepting [...]

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