What I learned going back to UX school
Last week I was on an expert panel, giving feedback to final project presentations at the HCDE 518 User…
Category: usability
The top mistakes UX designers make
Last week I spoke at the Puget Sound SIGCHI meeting. Since it’s a group of designers and user researchers,…
Usability issue for Kindle on Amazon.com
Noticed a small usability issue with how Amazon.com promotes Kindle editions of print books. This is what’s known as…
‘UX professional’ isn’t a real job?
Lots of fun was stirred up by this recent post, ‘UX professional’ isn’t a real job. Which I think…
The tradeoff of the hyperlink
Nicholas Carr’s recent post on delinkification explores whether we’d be better off if we didn’t use hyperlinks in-line. He’s…
How UX can get anything they want
I’m a fan of the unconventional view that most people, most of the time, worry about the wrong things.…
TurboTax Design FAIL
I’m so hopeful when I install the new version of something. Everyone is. An upgrade, the payment of cash…
When visualizations go wrong, part 2
Here’s part 2 of my continuing series of visualizations gone wrong (part 1 was about a viz on web…
Today is World Usability Day
Today marks the third annual World Usability Day. There are many events taking place online and more in various…
What every movie review website needs
I can’t tell you how many times, even in notable magazines, I’ve read movie reviews that spoil the movie.…
WordPress 2.5: Review
Last week I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. I’m a huge WordPress fan, I love what these…
The worst keyboard in the world
Ok, I confess, I have seen worse keyboards in the world. But this is definitely the worst space bar…
Usability review #4: Simplygoogle
#4 on the free review list is SimplyGoogle a utility page, exploding out many of the google options onto…
Usability review #3: Ginablack.net
#3 on the free review list is a site for the writer Gina Black. It’s a simple site and…
Usability review #5: Freetheslaves.net
#5 on the free review list is a site that has a purpose that’s hard to top: Freeing slaves.…
Usability is not a verb
I started my career in what is now called UX, but switched within a year for a management role…
Usability review: parkingfriend.com
#2 on the free review list comes from Geneva Switzerland, at parking-friend.com, a site for valet parking at the…
Usability review: iwethey.org
I got hit with a case of the lazies, and didn’t get to my promised free usability reviews until…
UI critique: feedshot.com
Feedshot.com Summary: this isn’t a site as much as a dialog box for a service. Two buttons and four…