When Gabe and I researched, wrote and designed the Carbon IQ User Centered Design Methods Guide, I felt […]
Still one of the best resources for what research to do when
smart book, dumb design
Check it out: the fly-out menu uses transparency, which means you have this mishmash of type on type. […]
Not Science, but…?
from HCI as Science | unraveled “As the class identified, HCI has plenty of current phenomena, but due […]
error! or insult…
Love love love this error… I feel my heart filling with pity for this poor, innocent malformed request.
netflix retooled
I’m a heavy Netflix user. In my opinion, Netflix is why you buy a DVD player, not the […]
ROI and Design
A particularly good review in Boxes and Arrows this week, Report Review: Nielsen/Norman Group’s Usability Return on Investment […]
naughty
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a reader writes…
A reader has a research opportunity for DMOZ/Open Directory Project users. If you regularly use DMOZ (this includes […]
Are guidelines useless?
Upon reading Employee Directory Search: Resolving Conflicting Usability Guidelines (Alertbox Feb. 2003) “In recent studies on how employees […]
easy or useless
Ziya points out Fortune.com – Alsop on Infotech – Hollywood’s Latest Flop “It’s clear that the studios’ motivation […]
he said dope heh heh heh
from since1968 :: Steve Krug Interview, upon being asked about so many quality websites coming from amateur enthusiasts […]
magic
Jakob’s most recent In the Future, We’ll All Be Harry Potter (Alertbox Dec. 2002) is a pleasent little […]
watching the watchmen
NNGroup and Me : A Tale of Two Tickets illustrates that sometimes user-centered isn’t as important as customer-centered.
cheatsheet
Universal Usability in Practice is a nice cheatsheet for figuring out how to design for different user types.
project continues
Zen Haiku: Password Previewing Tools version 2.2 is out. He continues to refine his tool for password choices. […]
amazon blows it
turns out Amazon.com’s wishlist address is not connnected to your address book, so when i updated my addressbook […]
stars and garters
One of my pet peeves is the little stars in password fields. As you all know, I am […]
yes and no
The flame bait of the moment, usability must die has a page on why AlertBox is nothing but […]
Watching the watchmen
CHI-WEB archives — September 2002, week 3 (#15) holds a wonderful post in which Manu Sharma takes apart […]
don wrote that
from CHI-WEB archives — August 2002, week 3 (#8) “People talk the way they talk. You can’t hold […]
tackling the wandering email problem
CafePress.com‘s forgot password page is the first good atempt I’ve spotted to help those folks who not only […]
the false dichotomy
On the off chance you haven’t read Emotion and Design please go do so now. The Don of […]
accessible, yes, usable, not so much
dive into mark may be the best guide out there to accessibility, but I wouldn’t know since when […]
He continues to surprise me
User Empowerment and the Fun Factor (Alertbox July 2002) is poetry: “Once we achieve ease of use, we’ll […]
why oh why
Why is Delta Dental Plan of California such a bad site? Other than ugly, badly executed (check out […]
chasing ROI
Read Measuring the Value of Usability Engineering and consider the IA community’s latest obsession with ROI. I still […]
Statistics class
Now, god knows I can barely multiply and divide without resorting to toes or a calculator, but even […]
slavish devotion to the rules
damn, this is an abuse of the bold tag. Usability Professionals: Stay Prepared for Business Waves I know […]
Oh Amazon, why so weird?
Today Amazon introduced the soon-to-be standard dancing tab with hairy feet. Yes, another exciting innovation that will spread […]
required reading
If you run usability tests, you need to read Usability Testing: You Get What You Pay For. I’m […]