Bad Usability Calendar 2009
Check out the fresh examples of crappy content, meaningless mash-ups,ignoring standards, making it too easy(!) and more
Why it’s easier to design interfaces on an Android then it is on an iPhone
Mobile applications market has boomed. Only iTunes itself hosts more than 10000 aps in less than five months. And some developers have become millionaires quite fast.
Researchers go even further and say that by 2020 the mobile phone will be the main device to connect to the internet. And that the internet will be reshaped by this small portable devices
Apple launches laptop - NO KEYBOARD!
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
No, no tricks. No touchscreen. Just a big huge wheel that does the job. You scroll your way to the letters. Is this going to be the way we’ll type 20 years from now?
I don’t see how I could use it. My fingers are so accustomed to my keys that they almost stay in the “typing shape” while I eat. But well, they must now what they are doing. They knew with the iPod.
I don’t understand one thing. If it doesn’t have a keyboard, Why do we need to fold it? Can’t we just have one piece like a giant ipod that’s slim?
Google Changed its favicon today!
When I first noticed this colorful icon next to the google tab i thought my firefox is buggy. And I restarted it. After I restarted it I thought it may be some special 2009 celebration thingy. A happy mask or so.
But it seems it’s more than that. Last year in May they have gone from the big G to the little g 
. But they have been criticized on blogs around the world. Nobody seemed to like it
I wonder what will the bloggers have to say this time.
My humble opinion is that this little g is more in the colorful Google style we got used to. We do need a bit of that in our current grey economy. Google keep the colors. We like them!
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User research - Saturday Night Live Style
A scene in the style of Saturday Night Live from GoodExperience.com
(I just couldn’t help reproducing it here, I see it so often)
Setting: Offices of Jack and Stan, owners of a popular spatula ecommerce website, spatula-forever.com.
Stan: OK, I’m ready to move forward with our redesign.
Jack: Really? Shouldn’t we do some user research first?
iPhone, iTunes, iPod, iFart
I thought I saw everything on the iTunes Application Store. And by now I stressed so many of them. But iFart beats me
iFart Mobile - iFart Changes Everything
Not only it sells well on iTunes but they say it makes $30k per days in good days. Not bad for a living.
iPhone applications anyone?
Inc.com laid off its usability people. And its web developers
I was searching for some piece of information (detailed comparison matrix on ecommerce platforms) that Inc.com promised to give me.
Use this E-Commerce Product-Comparison Matrix to determine the features and functionality you need to launch an E-commerce Web site and find the vendors that can fill your needs.
Promised but only “IF” I create an account first
Home Page Madness - How to design the perfect starting point for your website?
All designers start designing the home page. Yet it’s actually the most challenging part of a site. It has to cover many items (see below) yet it also has to convey the company identity - what’s it all about.
Items required on the HomePage:
- Website identity - What it’s all about
- Search feature
- Hierarchy - What you have to offer, what a visitor is expected to find on your website
- Promos & Spotlights
- Deals
- Shortcuts for most frequent visited sections
- Registration
- To show what the user is looking for (it should make it obvious for the user where he finds whatever he is supposed to find)
- Teasers (so that the user even if he’s looking for that particular something can see what else you can give him)
- Credibility & trust
- To show the user where to start
