21.06.07
Jamie
Back in 2005 the wife first told me about Facebook and how she couldn’t help but spend hours on there, communicating with her college pals. As it was a college only town back then I couldn’t experience it for myself, which I was quite happy about considering I had no time to write on walls! Read the rest of this entry »
31.05.07
Jack
When I first saw this product it looked like something that would be very inviting and playful to use. I couldn’t imagine that this came out of a Microsoft lab but hey, life is full of surprises and Microsoft Surface is one of them. Read the rest of this entry »
24.05.07
Jamie
Have you ever wished you could see what your users are up to? Well, it seems we can now watch movies of their every move!!! ClickTale is a new online service that could help us design and develop more usable applications for our users. Read the rest of this entry »
24.05.07
Jamie
“Take a design… Put it in front of users. Change anything that doesn’t work. Repeat.” According to Jared Spool, customers don’t care about usability and design, it seems they are more interested in increased revenue and getting more business. Read the rest of this entry »
22.05.07
Jamie
For many developers a gentle nudge is often needed to encourage the correct use of semantic (X)HTML, the nudge in this case is Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH). There is a POSH checklist for developers to follow and also some helpful resources. To keep on track just write meaningful markup and put presentation to one side, until you start writing the stylesheet.
14.05.07
Matt
So says Jakob Nielsen in this article on the BBC News web site. I’ve always considered Nielsen as ever-so slightly over-zealous in his usability beliefs and on this subject I feel no different. However, if you dilute his opinions down they can be a bit easier to swallow. It is true though, as he says, that many firms are ‘turning their backs on the basics’, although it is entirely possible to get the basics right and still use Web 2.0 technologies to make the experience even more usable. You just need to know what you are doing, as has always been the case.
12.04.07
Jack
If your users can’t find what they’re looking for, they’ll take their business elsewhere. Eye Tracking technology allows you to climb inside their heads and see your website through their eyes. It lets you see where they look, what they pay most attention too – and most importantly, what they miss.
