This little flag tells you how much time left to read till the end of the article. I don’t know if it’s pandering to people with low attention spans, but I like it anyway. See it in action here: http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography-the-basics/.
Continue reading →How can you tell if it’s worth trading your personal info for something online?
Continue reading →It’s easy to spot UI design bloopers in Hollywood films, like big red beeping “ACCESS DENIED” messages or cheesy 3D database fly-throughs. Well, the other day I was watching the film Friends with Benefits when a scene came on that had me throwing imaginary bricks at the screen – not because I saw some silly […]
Continue reading →“I’ll have it cold” – a video testament to the importance of user testing and usability.
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 →I haven’t seen a Guru Meditation since 1993…
Continue reading →It’s quite satisfying when a website manages to reflect its subject matter fully through its visual design. Here are 3 sites that achieve this special kind of harmony.
Continue reading →I saw this nice use of Flash while taking part in the BBC’s Big Risk Test. This question asks you to place various everyday activities in order of risk. The designers save you time here by automatically inserting the items in a tidy way while indicating exactly where you originally placed them (a line is […]
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 […]
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