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:
Category: usability
Response times
An interesting read on the performance of web sites and the impact on usability.
The $300 million button
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.
Image search 2.0
Is this is bound to revolutionize image search?
I think so.
EDIT: Nope, this is:
And guess what? It’s the same guys.
User Interface design for programmers
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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It’s not the user’s fault
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.
User interfaces of the future
Smashing magazine has a write up of these user interfaces of the future. Not yet ready for prime time, but interesting nonetheless.