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Ignorance and inspiration

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

Or the accessibility struggle in a nutshell.

Usability: More than Skin Deep

Saturday, October 13th, 2007 at 9:57 am


Paradox of Choice Redux

Saturday, October 13th, 2007 at 9:49 am

“More support”:http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/whenchoice.html for the “paradox of choice”:http://sotto.org/2006/11/25/the_other_mores_law/
These findings are striking. Certainly, they appear to challenge a fundamental assumption held by psychologists and economists alike—that having more, rather than fewer, choices is necessarily more desirable and intrinsically motivating. The findings from this study show that an extensive array of options can at first seem highly appealing [...]

Halo 3: How Microsoft Labs Invented a New Science of Play

Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 4:21 pm


Getting More out of users in usability tests.

Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 8:11 am


Sketching User Experience

Saturday, August 4th, 2007 at 8:09 pm

Subtly different from paper prototyping? [via xblog]

Interview with the Opera usability team

Friday, June 8th, 2007 at 11:02 am


ZIP interfaces

Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

As told by another Raskin. Any relation to Jef Raskin?

Visual syntactic text formatting

Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

Better comprehension through haiku or LOLCATS. via the blue.

Eye gaze patterns while searching vs. browsing

Monday, February 5th, 2007 at 12:14 am


The OLPC Sugar UI

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 12:29 am

Kind of disappointing only because they could have reinvented application state and chose to go classic.

Task Analysis Grid

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 12:26 am

The formalization that speaks to most phbs, after the post-it notes have been thrown away.

Simplicity is highly overrated

Thursday, December 14th, 2006 at 2:34 pm

I’d put sliced bread in that same category as well.

Simplify

Saturday, November 25th, 2006 at 9:57 am

John Maeda’s Laws of Simplicity. [via Presentation Zen].

Prototyping for the exception

Thursday, November 9th, 2006 at 9:38 pm


DateBocks

Thursday, September 21st, 2006 at 4:53 pm

Intuitive Date Input Selection. Very nice.

Yahoo design pattern library

Sunday, February 19th, 2006 at 5:58 am

To go along with the Yahoo Interface Blog. [via Antenna]

The humble onMouseHover

Saturday, November 12th, 2005 at 12:38 am


Denim

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005 at 11:07 pm

Cool prototyping tool useful with tablets, but extremely annoying with a mouse.

Jakob Nielsen on web design paradigms

Monday, August 30th, 2004 at 3:44 pm