Rethinking the desktop
How can you change a computer’s user interface to work with touch technology, like your iPhone? I think this video has part of the answer:
Archive for the ‘usability’ Category
Oct
13
Jun
19
Response times
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An interesting read on the performance of web sites and the impact on usability.
Jan
21
12 screen patterns for web interfaces
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Use these 12 standard screen patterns for inspiration when designing web interfaces.
Jan
18
The $300 million button
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Change one button and earn another $300 million in revenue? Here’s how to do it.
An eye-opener and great business argument that shows the real value of usability.
Oct
28
Image search 2.0
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Is this is bound to revolutionize image search?
I think so.
EDIT: Nope, this is:
And guess what? It’s the same guys.
Jul
30
User Interface design for programmers
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Joel, from Joel on Software, has written a book on user interface design for programmers. It’s available online, for free. Go read it.
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Jul
17
It’s not the user’s fault
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Jonathan DiCarlo (from Mozilla Labs) about developers, users, and user interfaces:
5. Are users dumb?
User interface design is not about dumbing things down for the poor stupid user.
We software developers, understanding the software as we do, find it easy to look down upon those who lack our understanding.
This is wrong.
Users aren’t dumb. They just have better things to do with their lives than memorizing the internal data model of our screwy software.
When software is hard to use, don’t make excuses for it. Improve it.
When a user makes a mistake, don’t blame the user. Ask how the software misled them. Then fix it.
The user’s time is more valuable than ours. Respect it.
Good UI design is humble.
May
8
Terrible dialog
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This is what happens when you let a developer design your user interface:
This one is even worse:
Jan
20
Bad usability calendar
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This bad usability calendar is right, ofcourse. Buy it at badusability.com.
Click to view full.
Nov
28
User interfaces of the future
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Smashing magazine has a write up of these user interfaces of the future. Not yet ready for prime time, but interesting nonetheless.