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, user experience, web on September 21st, 2009 Comments? »
I love this idea: http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/good/webapps-with-json.html
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, 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 [...]
Posted in css, design, development, programming, user experience, web on June 7th, 2009 Comments Off
Once again, I am getting my hands dirty with CSS. And I’m no expert, but having read through numerous articles from A List Apart, I’ve been fairly sensitive to how “designer-y” people think and react to CSS issues.
For one, I am currently working with rey who’s coding up the front-end for a site we’re building. [...]