Posts in User Experience

Virb – myspace, but pretty (Comments)

The revolution is here, and there’s no pink text on green backgrounds anywhere.

Don’t open a bank account online (Comments)

I love online banking. Between online bill pay, statements that are constantly updated, the lack of junk mail and live chatting whenever I need it, it’s very close to the perfect service provider solution. Unless I want to open a new account. I needed to open a new checking account and decided to do so [...]

Blowing up Basecamp (Comments)

I just blew up Basecamp. Our company had been searching for a project management solution for a long time before I first joined the team. They had evaluated the pros and cons of Microsoft Project and other tools, and had deemed them all too user-unfriendly for their purposes. In I trotted with the diea that [...]

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The extremely talented Andy Rutledge weighed in on the home page design for auction mega-giant eBay earlier today. His analysis was pretty thorough, and he managed to take a page that was extremely cluttered and hone in on what he felt were the most important pieces. Andy does a great job of focusing on creating [...]

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I wonder if this whole concept of user experience needs to be re-evaluated. For the majority of “user experience” people out there, the craft is primarily a technical one. It’s about expediency – moving someone from one place to another as quickly and easily as possible. Admittedly, it’s a noble and worthy goal – we’ve [...]

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Jakob Nielsen on ClearType, the plugin from Microsoft that anti-aliases screen text to make it more readable. “ClearType will make this user at least 10% more productive while reading from the screen, for a gain of $2,000.” I’ve had it for a few weeks now and I actually have enjoyed it quite a bit. You [...]

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Lots of things on the Internet make you smirk. But few make you laugh out loud in the conference room, forcing your colleagues to look up from what they’re doing to look your way. This is one of them.

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We’re working on the next iteration of a pretty slick tool for students on campus, and It’s a doozy from an interface standpoint. The company prides itself on customizing everything we do for clients, and it’s a big reason why we’ve been so successful. But for interfaces it can be tough – every aspect of [...]