Content tagged usability
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Search terms are replacing URLs as the suggested way to find out more about a product in Japanese advertising. (Requires that the site get indexed before … gulfstream/2418
Nice post outlining some of the UI changes being suggested for Firefox 3, together with a good overview of browser UI challenges and issues in general. gulfstream/2351
Piece on typical mistakes made in the sign-up process. Mostly common-sense points—Mistake #8: Not Telling Users How You’ll Use Their Information—though … gulfstream/2374
Target’s beautifully designed new pill bottle. (Flaws of existing designs on the previous page.) gulfstream/1734
Uber-hacker jwz finally … buys a Mac! gulfstream/1768
Fitts’s Law, usability, and making Office 2007 easier to use with a mouse. (Interesting side point about how an application like Office can be made … gulfstream/2146
URL design, and why the same piece of content should never be reachable by more than one URL. (See also Jacob Neilsen’s 1999 piece on the URL as UI.)(Listing … gulfstream/2225
Astute essay on the state of web apps, and what might happen next, with comparisons to the place ofLotus 1-2-3 3.0 and Windows in computing history.The … gulfstream/2332
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Bad Designs - Table of Contents
Google Reader - Common Questions
Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
essay on user interfaces, but mostly notable for the nice display of the article itself.
redesigns of the bloomberg terminal
conceptual redesigns (some quite radical) of the bloomberg terminal from ideo, happy cog
Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a Promotion = Ignored (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
"One site did most things right, but still had a miserable 14% success rate for its most important task. The reason? Users ignored a key area because it resembled a promotion."
