small pieces that would be too small for my blog
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Silverback Guerilla User Testing
“Silverback makes it easy, quick and cheap for everyone to perform guerrilla usability tests with no setup and no expense, using hardware already in your Mac.” This might be a good option to ask for...
June, 3 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Ux exchange
http://ux.stackexchange.com/ The website that Google ends up taking you to find your php questions, stack exchange, also revealed their UX related exchange website.
April, 22 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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How your audience makes a difference
This example is from Rolls Royce website. Having a customer base of people with lots of $$$, the way they had to treat their forms is quite different from what we would expect to see (unless, of course...
April, 21 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Artist vs. VC on Google image search
These two guys, Fred Wilson(s), do seem to be in a fight over who’s gonna take over the google image search for their name. I kind of found it ironic that one is a famous artist, the other is a famous VC. Can you guess which one is which from the photos? I bet you can. And money seems to be winning on Google at this moment...
April, 14 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing
Here is a nice post comparing the iPad in average user’s life to Microwave: How it is something that people would think they wouldn’t ever need, but how it does ‘some’ things very perfectly and will eventually become a de facto device of our daily life. Looking just at the specs, a microwave didn’t make sense to many. So manufacturers bundled them with cookbooks that detailed the many things you could cook in a microwave. Look, you can make this great Chinese dish in a microwave! Our microwave lets you bake a cake...
March, 21 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Speed matters for UX
Speed matters for UX Quoting from Gizmodo, on the new iPad 2: “At the risk of overstating it, the extra speed is non-trivial—it isn't simply a matter of apps loading faster or performing better in the abstract, but the basically instant response and speed of action lends an air of verisimilitude to everything you do.” Nice amplification of speed’s added value to the user experience, versus it’s added value performance.
March, 18 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Above-the-fold term comes from newspapers, which users consume the content after they buy. In web, users take action after they consume the content. A quote to help you in ‘above the fold’ discussions
November, 22 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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An article on memorialization process of the deceased on Facebook
http://goodmenproject.com/2010/10/28/grieving-in-the-facebook-age/
October, 29 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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So I am thinking; a single word is sharper than a blade, and a single picture is worth thousand words, how sharp is an image?
October, 28 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Apple Mac App Store will be the death of Personal Computing as we know it.
October, 22 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
