User experience (UX) is a convergence of many disciplines. It goes beyond making something just easy to use or visually pleasing, but looks after all the aspects of a person’s interaction with a product or service – and most importantly, how they feel about using it. All these forces need to work together to present […]
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Continue reading →The Book Depository just sent me a newsletter reviewing the buying trends of 2011. In the list was this fun infographic on the sale of zombie related books and graphic novels. It reminds me that a lone zombie is slightly pathetic, but a horde (the proper collective noun) is terrifying!
Continue reading →User interface design and usability is usually a good thing, but what if UI design is used to push people into doing the opposite of what they wanted?
Continue reading →I’d love to think this happened by accident, but I think it’s more likely that the BBC web team gave it a little nudge… 😉
Continue reading →You can imagine the scene in the boardroom – “We want to sell more stuff on the internet – Let’s brainstorm – who sells lots of stuff on the internet? Amazon does! So let’s just copy them…” A shop like GAK should know better than to mess with the intellectual property of a giant like […]
Continue reading →Now, I’m quite sceptical when it come to Apple computers. Fans of Apple usually claim that they are easier to use than Windows PCs, and some people I know who’ve never even used one also repeat these same received truths (Kudos to the Apple marketing department!). However, I’m not aware of any serious peer-reviewed research […]
Continue reading →I love when ATMs have built in seating!
Continue reading →It is a full 8 years since the .info domain came into being, and many sites, including high profile ones like the ACM haven’t updated their validation scripts yet!It is a full 8 years since the .info domain came into being, and many sites, including high profile ones like the ACM haven’t updated their validation scripts yet!
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