Posted in tools, user experience on February 27th, 2011 Comments? »
I have a problem in that I find it hard to do any kind of work in which I see no point in doing, and this happens a lot with UX documents. Even when I get rewarded for doing it, it’s hard for me to work on something without understanding the purpose and goal of [...]
Posted in interaction design, technology, tools, user experience, web on October 12th, 2009 Comments? »
Everyone’s hyped up about getting a Google Wave invite. I have one and I don’t see what the fuss is about. Yes, I’ve seen the YouTube video, and yes I’ve watched the Developer Preview video too. It looks great and all, but seriously folks – it’s one complicated thing… next to email. And this is [...]
Posted in interaction design, tools, user experience on October 4th, 2009 Comments? »
I’m currently in a team of 3 people working on a redesign of a website. To me, this feels like my first “real” design project, one where I’ve initiated without any requirements for software implementation. Instead, we began to ask ourselves who are our users, and what exactly are we trying to communicate to them?
User-Centred [...]
Posted in interaction design, tools, user experience on September 21st, 2009 Comments? »
I’m at the start of a new phase of our development, and we’re at the point where we need to generate ideas for our interfaces. I’ve observed that wireframes aren’t always well-received by people who don’t understand them – clients who think they need more color, developers who want to code over it, etc. If [...]
Posted in evaluation, resource, tools, user experience, web, websites on August 3rd, 2009 Comments? »
What I like about A/B Testing using Google Website Optimizer:
It helps provide real, direct data (as opposed to sheer guesses, or “eye-balling” secondary sources of data)
It helps you build strong skills in testing
It’s fairly straightforward to setup
It’s fairly flexible – allows for HTML markup, etc.
See how 37 Signals puts A/B testing to the works here.
See [...]
Posted in tools, user experience on June 25th, 2009 Comments Off
I’m employing a diary study for my MSc dissertation on image search, and I realized I was doing it all wrong today when I met with my supervisor and project sponsors. Well, okay I wasn’t entirely clueless but I did make some pretty bad assumptions about diary studies, and these were the lessons I learnt.
1. [...]
Posted in social web, tools, user experience on June 21st, 2009 Comments Off
I’m working at a small startup company and we’ve just got ourselves onto Yammer and I’m really getting into it. I use Twitter as well for my regular stuff, but Yammer has me posting all sorts of ideas and thoughts and feedback about the work we do.
We basically use it to state what we’re currently [...]
Posted in tools, user experience, web on June 12th, 2009 Comments Off
Update: Rey alerted me to Yahoo! YSlow
This looks interesting:
http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
Curious to know how effective this is towards usability/interaction design.
Blurb from site:
Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
Page Speed performs several tests [...]